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Author: Ellen Bal Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: 9812304460 Category : Garo (Indic people) Languages : en Pages : 260
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An investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh. It deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of Garo-ness, in the context of the complex historical developments.
Author: Ellen Bal Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies ISBN: 9812304460 Category : Garo (Indic people) Languages : en Pages : 260
Book Description
An investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh. It deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of Garo-ness, in the context of the complex historical developments.
Author: Zothanchhingi Khiangte Publisher: Partridge Publishing ISBN: 1482886715 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 387
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This collection assembles significant research papers on the concept of orality, theoretical approaches, and oral traditions juxtaposed with writing, culture, and folklore. Many of the essays also deal with issues of gender in oral cultures like those of Northeast India. The collection serves as an introduction to the varied ways in which the analysis of oral traditions has revitalized the quest for meanings in orality.
Author: Queenbala Marak Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1000071820 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 599
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The state of Meghalaya, formed on 21 January 1972, is a state of fascinating socio-cultural significance. Its heritage can be traced from the prehistoric times of Stone Age up to the present. Though comprising mainly of the matrilineal Khasi, Garo, and Jaintia tribes – the state also houses many other lesser known communities such as the Hajong,Sakachep, Biate, Koch, Dalu, Margnar and the Nepali. All these communities find voice in this volume. This book looks at the state of Meghalaya exhaustively from the perspective of heritage documentation and maintenance. The 38 chapters written by anthropologists and independent researchers, present the rich traditions found in the region. This volume will be of great help to academicians, researchers, students, and laymen interested in a comprehensive study of the region. Please note: This title is co-published with Manohar Publishers, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in South Asia.
Author: Paulinus R. Marak Publisher: ISBN: Category : Garo (Indic people) Languages : en Pages : 132
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The Book Deals With The Origin And Migration Of The Garos Consisting Of Different Tribal Groups Settled In Garo Hills, Their Ancient Animistic Religious Beliefs And Practices, Numerous Deities, Which Control Their Life And Must Be Appeased With Rituals, Ceremonies And Animal Sacrifices To Ensure Welfare Of The Tribe. They Believe In Life After Death And Perform Intricate Funeral Ceremonies. Though Majority Of Them Have Converted To Christianity Yet Many Old Festivals And Cultural Practices Are Retained.;
Author: Erik de Maaker Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 8195111270 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 460
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Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India provides intimate insights into the lives of Garo hill farmers, and the challenges they face in day-to-day life. Focusing on the ongoing reinterpretation of traditions, or customs, the book reveals the inadequacy of the all too often assumed characterization of upland societies as culturally homogenous, internally cohesive, and unchanging. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book focuses on a rural area where land constitutes the most important resource, and where a substantial number of people practise traditional Garo animism. The book explores how people create and continually reinterpret the multiple relationships that connect them as a community, to the spirits, and to the land. These relationships are embedded in normative frameworks that call for compliance, yet leave room for ambiguity and negotiation. Far from being immutable, these need to be constantly expressed, (re-)interpreted, and enacted. The book thus shows how Garo traditions, referred to as niam, are continuously revised and reworked in response to new economic and political opportunities, as well as to changes in the ontological landscape.
Author: Malini Sur Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812297768 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 227
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Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and Christian "ethnic minorities," suspecting them to be disloyal subjects, spies, and traitors. In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of these people to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend against a background of violence, scarcity, and India's construction of one of the world's longest and most highly militarized border fences. Jungle Passports recasts established notions of citizenship and mobility along violent borders. Sur shows how the division of sovereignties and distinct regimes of mobility and citizenship push undocumented people to undertake perilous journeys across previously unrecognized borders every day. Paying close attention to the forces that shape the life-worlds of deportees, refugees, farmers, smugglers, migrants, bureaucrats, lawyers, clergy, and border troops, she reveals how reciprocity and kinship and the enforcement of state violence, illegality, and border infrastructures shape the margins of life and death. Combining years of ethnographic and archival fieldwork, her thoughtful and evocative book is a poignant testament to the force of life in our era of closed borders, insularity, and "illegal migration."
Author: Ellen Bal
Author: Ellen Bal
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Author: Queenbala Marak
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Author: Paulinus R. Marak
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Author: Phukana Candra Basumatārī
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