THIS IS HASSAN

KINSHIP OF IRAWATI KARVE  Every individual has relationships with other people around them. This is the basic system that takes place in all human societies. It is known as the system of kinship. Radcliffe-Brown (1964) insisted on the study of a kinship system as a field of rights and obligations. Evans-Pritchard’s study of the Nuer of the southern Sudan (1951) focused on kinship groups. Irawati Karve was an Indian educationist, anthropologist, sociol­ogist and a writer from Maharashtra. Her study of kinship is based on personal inquiry supplemented by readings in Sanskrit, Pali, Ardhamagadhi, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi and Maithili. Iravati Karve (1953) undertakes a comparative analysis of four cultural zones with a view to trace out something like a regional pattern of social behaviour. Karve analyses the process of acculturation and accommodation in the context of kinship. Some Points that gained Karve’s consideration: 1.      Kinship in terms ...