Total population | |
---|---|
278 [1] | |
Languages | |
Purum language (
L1) Meitei language ( L2) [2] | |
Religion | |
Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Meitei people, Kharam |
The Purums are a Tibeto-Burman indigenous ethnic group of Manipur. They are (or were) notable because their marriage system is the subject of ongoing statistical and ethnographical analysis; Buchler states that "they are perhaps the most over-analyzed society in anthropology". [3] Purums marry only in selected sibs; the allowed sibs are fixed by traditional customs. The Purums are divided into five sibs, namely, Marrim, Makan, Kheyang, Thao and Parpa. [4] There is no indigenous centralized government. [5] They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [6]
According to the 1931
Census of India, the Purums numbered 145 men and 158 women, all practising their ancestral ethnic religion; in 1936 they numbered 303 individuals but in the 1951 census they numbered only 43 individuals.
[5]
Total population | |
---|---|
278 [1] | |
Languages | |
Purum language (
L1) Meitei language ( L2) [2] | |
Religion | |
Christianity | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Meitei people, Kharam |
The Purums are a Tibeto-Burman indigenous ethnic group of Manipur. They are (or were) notable because their marriage system is the subject of ongoing statistical and ethnographical analysis; Buchler states that "they are perhaps the most over-analyzed society in anthropology". [3] Purums marry only in selected sibs; the allowed sibs are fixed by traditional customs. The Purums are divided into five sibs, namely, Marrim, Makan, Kheyang, Thao and Parpa. [4] There is no indigenous centralized government. [5] They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue. [6]
According to the 1931
Census of India, the Purums numbered 145 men and 158 women, all practising their ancestral ethnic religion; in 1936 they numbered 303 individuals but in the 1951 census they numbered only 43 individuals.
[5]