TY  - GEN
AU  - Maaker, Erik De 
TI  - Reworking culture: relatedness, rites, and resources in Garo hills, North East India
SN  - 9788194831693
PY  - 2022///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Garo--Indic people
KW  - Social life and customs	
KW  - Housing matters
KW  - Cusomizing Traditions
KW  - Garo Niam
N2  - Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India provides intimate insights into the lives of hill farmers and the challenges they face in day-to-day life. Focussing on the reinterpretation of traditions, or customs, the book critiques the all too often taken for granted assumption that upland societies are characterized by cultural homogeneity and strong internal cohesion. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, the book focuses on a rural area in which land continues to constitute the most important resource that people have access to, and that has a substantial number of followers of traditional Garo community religion. In doing so, the book explores the creation and continuing reinterpretation of the multiple relationships through which people are connected to one another, as well as to their environment. These relationships are embedded in normative frameworks that are demanding, yet leave room for ambiguity and negotiation. Far from being immutable, these need to be constantly expressed, (re-)interpreted and enacted. Reworking Culture shows how what people perceive as tradition, is continuously revised and reworked in response to new economic and political opportunities, as well as to changes in the ontological landscape.

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