Author: Majumdar, Dhirendra Naryan
Title: Culture Change in Two Garo Villages
Description: India, Anthropological Survey, (1978). orig. cloth, Dustwrapper. 24x16cm, (8),188,(8)pp, Series: Anthropological Survey of India.. 7pp photoplates.. Rubbed. Some discoloration to flyleaves. Good. ¶ Includes a 11 pp glossary of Garo Terms. Contents: Introduction; The Garo, Land and People; Geographical Environment; A General Account of the Tribe; The Life of a Garo from Birth to Death; Typical Features of Ambeng Culture;History of Contact of the Garo with the outside World; The Story of the Two Villages; Wajadagiri; Matchakolgiri; Methods of Cultivation, Old and New; Shifting Cultivation as Practised in Matchakolgiri; Shifting Cultivation as Practised in Wajadagiri; Permanent Cultivation as Practised by Wajadagiri People; The Family and the Household; Change in Other Apects of Social Structure; Social Groups based on Kinship; Groups Based on Locality; Pattern of Economic Change; Sale of Crops; Other Ways of Making Cash Income; Family Budgets; Cash Income and the Women; Ways and Means to Meet Deficit; Conclusion; Property and Inheritance; Inheritance; Village Administration; Interrelationship between Housholds; Disputes; The Role of the 'Nokma'; Incongruencies in Village Administration; Conclusion; Appendix I: Fertility Statistics; Appendix II: Glossary of Garo Terms; Appendix III: General Village Survey.

Keywords: Indian Ethnology, South Asia, Northeast India, Faro Garos, Ethnography, Ethnology, Sociology, Ethnic, Assam, Anthropology