Ethnographic Notes in Southern India. With 40 plates. Second Impression. Demy 8vo, cloth. 7s. 6d. net. This volume represents the results of many years of research into South Indian manners and customs, surviving, moribund, or deceased. Among the subjects dealt with are:-Some marriage customs; death ceremonies; omens, evil eye, charms, animal superstitions, sorcery, etc.; votive offerings; deformity and mutilation; torture in by-gone days, and a few stray survivals; corporal punishment in vernacular schools; slavery; making fire by friction; fire-walking; hook-swinging; infanticide; meriah sacrifice; dress; names of natives; the couvade; earth-eating; boomerang; steelyards, clepsydras, knuckle-dusters, cock-fighting, tallies, dry-cupping.
- ISBN10 3732630838
- ISBN13 9783732630837
- Publish Date 13 February 2018 (first published 29 September 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint Salzwasser-Verlag Gmbh
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 244
- Language English