W. H. R. Rivers spent months among the Todas, a small pastoral people of the Nilgiri Hills in southern India, whose religious life centres on their buffalo herds and a graded system of sacred dairies. He records their dairy ritual, priests, gods, funerals, marriage customs and genealogies, and explains how reliable each piece of his evidence is.
A landmark of field anthropology, still cited for its method, for readers of ethnography and Indian history. Download the free EPUB.