Author : Pranab Kumar Das Gupta
Release : 1989-01-01
Genre : Khasis
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Life And Culture Of Matrilineal Tribe Of Meghalaya - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life And Culture Of Matrilineal Tribe Of Meghalaya write by Pranab Kumar Das Gupta. This book was released on 1989-01-01. Life And Culture Of Matrilineal Tribe Of Meghalaya available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dr. Das Gupta's study unveils a panorama of tribal life on the sprawling, southern slope sof Meghalaya-the home of clouds Sponsored by the Anthropological Survey of India, it focusses on the Wars (a sub-group of the Khasi tribe), their history, goegraphical environment, material culture, economy, politics, religion and social structure in an effort to highlight the salient features of the life and culture of the trbe. Relevantly, therefore, the author seeks to demonstrate hwo the matrilineal, endogamous Wars, despite their certain similarities withthe Khasi tribe are different in dialect, political organisation, social customs and manners, and broadly, how they compare with the other matrilineal tribal cultures of the world. The outcome of the author's painstaking extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of the War Khasis embraces almost every facet of the tribe's life and culture, describing the characteristic War Khasi village, home agriculture, livestokc, tools, dress, ornaments, vocations, domestic chores, hunting pursuits, armoury, means of travel, recreatioins, pastimes, family, clan, marraige, divorce. kinship, rules of inheritance (which are of great theoretical importance to social anthropologists), social practices, beliefs, muths superstitions, funeral rites, and a lot more.