nayaka
- proper noun
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Nayaka
- Many people in the village identify themselves by the Nayaka surname, indicating their heritage.
- Nayaka child
Examples
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The Nayaka family is well-respected in our community for their contributions to local culture.
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During the festival, members of the Nayaka clan showcased their traditional dances and music.
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Growing up was not generally identified by the Nayaka I studied with separation and distance (conceptual or actual) from the parents.
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I follow their usage when I refer below to "many Nayaka," though it may seem a regression to old-fashioned rhetoric.
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Bird-David (1990:192) has described similar meat division among Nayaka.
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This underlying premise is in tension with the Nayaka authoritative ontology of "living together."
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My analysis continues a series of recent articles exploring the Nayaka's particular rendition of a relational ontology.
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The incident gripped my attention, but my Nayaka companions did not indulge my attempt to make it an issue: as far as they were concerned, the cub simply needed and was given food.
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In part as a corrective to "The Giving Environment," the core of these concerns was a study of Nayaka relational child feeding, which sought to shed more light on the local own senses of parental provisioning in the forest.
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More generally, I shall engage with studies of children in societies commonly grouped as "hunter-gatherers," with special regard to forest dwellers, who provide a relevant comparative context for my Nayaka study.
Academic text (2008)
Synonyms
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7.2
A family name used by people, especially in South Asia
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9.7
A family name or place name found in some countries
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8.6
An Indian family name or male first name
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9.8
A family name that some people use as their last name
A personal name used in South Asia
A family or personal name used in South Asia
A family name used especially by people from South Asia or East Africa
A family name used by people in many countries
Surface Forms
Etymology
Nayaka as a family name comes from the same old word nāyaka meaning 'leader', so people often have this surname because an ancestor was a local leader or head of a group.