Marriage Rituals in an Anthropological Perspective

Abstract

Literature and anthropology are closely related and anthropology helps us to understand the marriage rituals followed by man in Sangam era. This article explores the marriage rituals that took place in the Sangam era through the very famous Tamil book Ettuthogai. Marriage rituals means the glory of humanity. The purpose of this article is to investigate the marriage rituals in the Ettuthogai, such as Fasting, fixing date, keeping flower, greeting the woman, cooking and feasting. In this article the reason for their marriage ceremony had been viewed from anthropological point on the basis of action-oriented, social relations and community-oriented.