Purum people
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Template:Contains special characters Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 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".[2] 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.[3] There is no indigenous centralized government.[4] They use Meitei language as their second language (L2) according to the Ethnologue.[5]
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.[4]
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