THE ‘BIG BANG ’ OF DRAVIDIAN KINSHIP

This article is about the essential nature of transformations in Dravidian kinship systems as may be observed through a comparison of a few contemporary ethnographic examples. It is a sequel to an earlier article entitled ‘The Hill Madia of central India: early human kinship? ’ (Vaz 2010),1 in which I have described the structure of the Madia kinship system as based on a rule o