Aditeya Sukumaran

The Nair Exception: Matrilineality & Rethinking What Tradition Can Be

Aditeya looks at how our ideas of “traditional gender roles” are often shaped by assumptions of universality. Drawing on his homeland of Kerala’s matrilineal lineage system, his talk offers a perspective on how different societies have approached gender and family in different ways. He hopes to encourage a more reflective and open-ended way of thinking about tradition and how the past can inspire us.