Data for 128 Purum marriages from a census (purum)
and 30 marriages from Khulen village.
Usage
data(purum)
Arguments
source
White HC 1963.An anatomy of kinship, Englewood
Cliffs, N.J. Prentice-Hall; Figure 3.12, p136 forkhulenand
Table 3.2, p138 forpurum
Das 1945.The Purums: an old Kuki tribe of Manipur.
Calcutta, University of Calcutta
Bishop WMV, Fienberg SE, and Holland PW 1975.Discrete
multivariate analysis. MIT Press
Details
The Purums are an isolated tribe in the interior of India, divided
into five sibs: Marrim, Makan, Parpa, Thao, and the Kheyang.
Marriages between persons of the same sib are forbidden, as are
persons from certain pairs of sibs; note the lack of symmetry in the
structural zeros implying a gender asymmetry (the single
Kheyang-Kheyang marriage has special dispensation).