Before Genealogy?: Marking Descent in the Inscriptions of Early Historic India
This paper examines the forms of descent recorded in the Brāhmī inscriptions of early historic India (c. 300 bce–300 ce). I will argue that they afford us the possibility of viewing how non-noble groups traced kinship, lineage and ancestry. We see this in the development of kin networks; in the arti...
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格式: | 电子 文件 |
语言: | English |
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Equinox
2011
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2011, 卷: 5, 发布: 1/2, Pages: 245-265 |
Further subjects: | B
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B gahapati B Genealogy B Inscriptions B metronymics B Aśoka B Kinship B Brāhmī B gotras B Sanskrit |
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总结: | This paper examines the forms of descent recorded in the Brāhmī inscriptions of early historic India (c. 300 bce–300 ce). I will argue that they afford us the possibility of viewing how non-noble groups traced kinship, lineage and ancestry. We see this in the development of kin networks; in the articulation of descent and proprietal control among landed and mercantile groups; in the patriarchal norms laid down for women; and in the use of metronymics and gotras. Finally, by tracing the slow emergence of genealogies in the inscriptional record, I show that they must be linked to changes in socio-economic, literary and political domains. |
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ISSN: | 1751-2697 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions of South Asia
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.245 |