Purum

Purum

The Purum are an "old Kuki" tribe of Manipur. They are (were) notable because their marriage system is the subject of ongoing statistical and ethographical analysis; Buchler states that "they are perhaps the most over-analyzed society in anthropology"cite book| last=Buchler| first=I. R.| title=Game theory in the behavioural sciences|year=1969|publisher=Pittsburgh University Press] . Purum marry only in one ore more selected sibs; such unions are fixed by traditional customs.

According to the 1931 Census of India, the Purums numbered 145 men and 158 women, all practising their ancestral tribal religion; in 1936 they numbered 303 individuals but in the 1951 census they numbered only 43 individualscite journal| last=Needham| first=R.| title=A structural analysis of Purum society| journal=American Anthropologist| year=1958| volume=60|number=1|pages=75-101] .

The Purums are divided into five sibs, namely, Marrim, Makan, Kheyang, Thao and Parpa cite book| last=White| first=H. C.| title=An anatomy of kinship|year=1963|publisher=Prentice=-Hall] . There is no indigenous centralized government [Needham 1958] .

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