Book
Culture change in two Garo villages
Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India • (42) • Published In 1978 • Pages: xi, 188 , plates
By: Majumdar, Dhirendra Narayan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of the effect of economic change on basic Garo institutions. Majumdar compares two villages from the Ambeng sub-tribe. Because of increased population in the region and land scarcity, both villages have reached the limits of shifting cultivation. One village continues to practice shifting cultivation, supplemented by outside wage labor. The other village has reclaimed marshland to form permanent paddy and grow cotton on their shifting plots. The author discusses how these changes have impacted differently on social relations within the household, village, and clans in each village. One finding is that the increased importance of a money economy and decreasing importance of landed property in the one village has significantly undermined the corporate nature of the household, and the authority structure of the village and lineage. Whereas in the other village traditional social institutions have been able to accommodate the change over to permanent agriculture. The author also looks at respective changes in religion, inheritance, dispute resolution, and settlement patterns. Also, he gives a good account of the property relations of shifting cultivation.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Agriculture
- Land use
- Real property
- Exchange and transfers
- Household
- 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.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard ; 1998
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1953-1965
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1953-1965
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Matchakolgiri and Wajadagiri, Garo Hills Autonomous District, Meghalaya State, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- Dhirendra Narayan Majumdar
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 182-188)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 79906248
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Garo (Indic people)