Nayar

ETHNONYM: Nair

See also Nambudiri Brahman

Bibliography

Fuller, Christopher J. (1976). The Nayars Today. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Gough, E. Kathleen (1959). "The Nayars and the Definition of Marriage." Journal of American Folklore 71:23-34.

Gough, E. Kathleen, and David M. Schneider (1961). Matrilineal Kinship. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Logan, William (1887). Manual of Malabar. 2 vols. Madras: Government Press. Reprint. 1961. Malabar. 3 vols.

Mencher, Joan P. (1965). "The Nayars of South Malabar." In Comparative Family Systems, edited by M. F. Nimkoff, 163-191. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Mencher, Joan P. (1966). "Kerala and Madras: A Comparative Study of Ecology and Social Structure." Ethnology 5:135-171.

Mencher, Joan P. (1978). "Agrarian Relations in Two Rice Regions of Kerala." Economic and Political Weekly 13:349-366.

JOAN P. MENCHER