Purum people

The Purums, are a Tibeto-Burman indigenous ethnic group of Manipur. They are (or were) notable because their marriage system is the subject of ongoing statistical and ethnographical analysis; Buchler states that "they are perhaps the most over-analyzed society in anthropology".[2] Purums marry only in selected sibs; the allowed sibs are fixed by traditional customs. The Purums are divided into five sibs, namely, Marrim, Makan, Kheyang, Thao and Parpa.[3] There is no indigenous centralized government.[4]

Purum
Purum written in Meitei script
Total population
278[1]
Languages
Purum language
Religion
Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Kharam

According to the 1931 Census of India, the Purums numbered 145 men and 158 women, all practising their ancestral ethnic religion; in 1936 they numbered 303 individuals but in the 1951 census they numbered only 43 individuals.[4]

References
  1. "Census of India".
  2. Buchler, I. R. (1969). Game theory in the behavioural sciences. Pittsburgh University Press.
  3. White, H. C. (1963). An anatomy of kinship. Prentice=-Hall.
  4. Needham, R. (1958). "A structural analysis of Purum society". American Anthropologist. 60 (1): 75–101. doi:10.1525/aa.1958.60.1.02a00080.



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