Male authority and female autonomy: A study of the Matrilineal Nayars of Kerala, South India

Gender, Kinship and Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 131-146

  Menon, Shanti ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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