Book
Rengsanggri: family and kinship in a Garo village
University of Pennsylvania Press • Philadelphia • Published In 1963 • Pages:
By: Burling, Robbins.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This monograph is a descriptive study of Garo culture and history with emphasis on the village of Rengsanggri, the site of Burling's field research. Kinship and social organization are discussed in specific detail. Religion and economy receive a thorough examination, especially with reference to changes brought about by the work of the Christian Missions and influences from Bengali and Assamese culture.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Tillage
- Cereal agriculture
- Retail marketing
- Mutual aid
- Inheritance
- Marriage
- Residence
- Household
- Spirits and gods
- Techniques of socialization
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Garo
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1999
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sigrid Khera ; Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; 1967-1971
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1954-1956
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- village of Rengsanggri, Garo Hills, Meghalaya State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Robbins Burling
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62011267
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)