They Ask if We Eat Frogs : Garo Ethnicity in Bangladesh /

This study is a critical investigation into the category of tribes in South Asia. It breaks away from previous studies of tribes in the region. While it focuses on one so-called tribal community, the Garos of Bangladesh, it neither studies Garo culture as such, nor their social organization. Instead...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bal, Ellen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden, the Netherlands : International Institute for Asian Studies, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Garo (Indic people) > Social conditions.
Garo (Indic people)
Garo (Peuple de l'Inde) > Bangladesh > Conditions sociales.
Garo (Peuple de l'Inde) > Bangladesh > Histoire.
Garo (Indic people) > Bangladesh > Social conditions.
Garo (Indic people) > Bangladesh > History.
Bangladesh.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THE HISTORY OF A PERSISTENT IMAGE; 3. 'THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING GARO': GARO NARRATIVES OF SELF; 4. PEOPLES WITHOUT HISTORY?; 5. 'DUAL WERE DUAL, KOCHU WERE KOCHU': GAROS DIVIDED; 6. NEGOTIABLE BOUNDARIES, NEGOTIABLE IDENTITIES; 7. GAROS AND CHRISTIANITY; 8. GAROS AND THE STATE; 9. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION: FROM TRIBES TO ETHNIC MINORITIES; REFERENCES; INDEX; ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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