Garo Customary Laws and Practices

Garo Customary Laws and Practices
Author: Julius Marak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000
Genre: Customary law
ISBN:

This Book Is The Comprehensive Study Made By A Garo Scholar Himself Who Could Understand Better The Intricacies And Complexity Of Customary Laws. He Has Also Citied All The Important Case Laws On The Point Not Only Of The District And Village Courts But Also Of The State High Courts, Neatly Forged Reader May Easily Get Down At The Bottom And In The Process Be Acquainted With The Subject Matter.

Negotiating Rites

Negotiating Rites
Author: Ute Husken
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2012
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0199812292

Ritual has been long viewed as an undisputed and indisputable part of (especially religious) tradition, performed over and over in the same ways: stable in form, meaningless, preconcieved, and with the aim of creating harmony and enabling a tradition's survival. The authors represented in this collection argue, however, that this view can be seriously challenged and that ritual's embeddedness in negotiation processes is one of its central features.

Orality: the Quest for Meanings

Orality: the Quest for Meanings
Author: Zothanchhingi Khiangte
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2016-10-28
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1482886715

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.

Ibss: Anthropology: 1986

Ibss: Anthropology: 1986
Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 652
Release: 1990
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415031639

IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

They Ask If We Eat Frogs

They Ask If We Eat Frogs
Author: Ellen Bal
Publisher: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2007
Genre: Garo (Indic people)
ISBN: 9812304460

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.