Tamil

ETHNONYMS: Tamilar, Tamilian

See also Labbai ; Tamil of Sri Lanka ; Vellala

Bibliography

Clothey, Fred (1978). The Many Faces of Murukan: The History and Meaning of a South Indian God. The Hague: Mouton.

Daniel, E. Valentine (1987). Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Dumont, Louis (1983). Affinity as Value: Marriage Alliance in South India, with Comparative Essays on Australia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Dumont, Louis (1986). A South Indian Subcaste. Delhi: Oxford University Press.

Trautmann, Thomas R. (1981). Dravidian Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Trawick, Margaret (1990). Notes on Love in a Tamil Family. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wadley, Susan, ed. (1980). The Powers of Tamil Women. South Asian Series, no. 6. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University.

CLARENCE MALONEY