This book provides intimate insights into the lives of farmers in Garo Hills, North-East India. Based on a long-term ethnographic engagement, it focuses on followers of traditional Garo animism, whose land constitutes their most important resource. In response to new economic and political opportunities, as well as to changes in the ontological landscape, people continually reinterpret the multiple relationships that connect them as a community, as well as to the spirits, and the land.
This book provides intimate insights into the lives of farmers in Garo Hills, North-East India. Based on a long-term ethnographic engagement, it focuses on followers of traditional Garo animism, whose land constitutes their most important resource. In response to new economic and political opportunities, as well as to changes in the ontological landscape, people continually reinterpret the multiple relationships that connect them as a community, as well as to the spirits, and the land.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Erik de Maaker is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. His research interests include place making, relatedness, religion, heritage, materiality, visuality, and the life cycle. Erik is also a visual anthropologist. His publications include the co-edited Media, Indigeneity and Nation in South Asia (Routledge 2019); and Unequal land Relations in North East India: Custom, Gender and the Market (NESRC 2020) as well as Trans-Himalayan Environmental Humanities: Symbiotic Indigeneity and the Animist Earth (Routledge, 2021). He is a founding member of the Asian Borderlands Research Network.
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Contents Preface/Acknowledgements Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Quotation Glossary of Terms List of Figures I Customizing Culture? 1.1 Locating Garo Culture 1.2 Creating Community 1.3 Continuing Conversations 1.4 Structure of the Book II Frames, Labels, Locations 2.1 Spatial Divides 2.2 Garo Conversions 2.3 Becoming Citizens 2.4 Constituting 'Tribe' 2.5 Ethnic Politics, Militancy, and the Demand for Statehood III Housing Matters 3.1 Jiji's Plight 3.2 Modelling Relatedness 3.3 Living with Houses 3.4 The Birth of a House 3.5 Bracing for Social Pressure? 3.6 Houses of Relatedness IV Niam, Houses and Land 4.1 It would be good if he died! 4.2 Practising Niam 4.3 Living with the Spirits 4.4 Occupying the Land 4.5 Landed Responsibilities and Religious Stature 4.6 Negotiating the Growth of the Crops V Engaging the Dead 5.1 The Religiosity of Funerals 5.2 Souls and their Wanderings 5.3 Anticipating Death 5.4 Death's Demands 5.5 Engaging Gifts 5.6 Acknowledging the Source 5.7 Vouching to Slaughter a Cow 5.8 Putrefaction and Presence 5.9 Separating, Distancing, and Reconnecting VI Claiming Relationships, Spaces, and Resources 6.1 Replacing Baka 6.2 Constituting Mutuality 6.3 Showing Commitment, Acknowledging Debt 6.4 Rural Workers, Rural Entrepreneurs 6.5 Accessing Swidden 6.6 From Rotating Swiddens to Permanent Occupation 6.7 Living on the Land VII Customizing Traditions 7.1 The State as a Resource 7.2 Reinterpreting Status, Wealth, and Prestige 7.3 Polarities and Convergences VIII The Modernity of Garo Niam 8.1 Cherishing Tradition 8.2 How Niam Facilitates Social Change 8.3 Reworking Niam Notes References Index
Contents Preface/Acknowledgements Transliteration, Pronunciation, and Quotation Glossary of Terms List of Figures I Customizing Culture? 1.1 Locating Garo Culture 1.2 Creating Community 1.3 Continuing Conversations 1.4 Structure of the Book II Frames, Labels, Locations 2.1 Spatial Divides 2.2 Garo Conversions 2.3 Becoming Citizens 2.4 Constituting 'Tribe' 2.5 Ethnic Politics, Militancy, and the Demand for Statehood III Housing Matters 3.1 Jiji's Plight 3.2 Modelling Relatedness 3.3 Living with Houses 3.4 The Birth of a House 3.5 Bracing for Social Pressure? 3.6 Houses of Relatedness IV Niam, Houses and Land 4.1 It would be good if he died! 4.2 Practising Niam 4.3 Living with the Spirits 4.4 Occupying the Land 4.5 Landed Responsibilities and Religious Stature 4.6 Negotiating the Growth of the Crops V Engaging the Dead 5.1 The Religiosity of Funerals 5.2 Souls and their Wanderings 5.3 Anticipating Death 5.4 Death's Demands 5.5 Engaging Gifts 5.6 Acknowledging the Source 5.7 Vouching to Slaughter a Cow 5.8 Putrefaction and Presence 5.9 Separating, Distancing, and Reconnecting VI Claiming Relationships, Spaces, and Resources 6.1 Replacing Baka 6.2 Constituting Mutuality 6.3 Showing Commitment, Acknowledging Debt 6.4 Rural Workers, Rural Entrepreneurs 6.5 Accessing Swidden 6.6 From Rotating Swiddens to Permanent Occupation 6.7 Living on the Land VII Customizing Traditions 7.1 The State as a Resource 7.2 Reinterpreting Status, Wealth, and Prestige 7.3 Polarities and Convergences VIII The Modernity of Garo Niam 8.1 Cherishing Tradition 8.2 How Niam Facilitates Social Change 8.3 Reworking Niam Notes References Index
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