The Hajong of Assam. An Ethnographic Profile of a Least Studied Bodo-Kachari Tribe

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2015 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 1, , language: English, abstract: The present paper is a brief ethnographic report on the Hajong tribe of Assam. They are a least studied small endogamous Bodo-Kachari tribe having a trans-border international presence i.e. in NE India and in Bangladesh. A huge number of them migrated to India from their homeland in erstwhile East-Pakistan. The paper is based on the data collected through standard anthropological methods from two remote Hajong villages viz. Kuhiarbari and Kotha Adarsha, located along the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border in Margherita Sub-division, Tinsukia district, upper Assam. The Hajongs are patrilineal, patriarchal and patrilocal; and in marital alliances the rules of tribal endogamy and clan exogamy are followed. They have the traditional custom of paying bride price - Khalti. The people by and large live in nuclear families. Agriculture is the main occupation of the Hajongs. They follow Hinduism; Bastu puja and Bash puja are important religious ceremonies of the people performed by the Deoshi (traditional village priest).

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• Authors: Boby Dutta, Ripunjo Sonowal, Ripunjoy Sonowal
• Publisher: Grin Verlag
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2015
• EAN: 9783656974574
• ISBN: 978-3-656-97457-4
• No. of pages: 24
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 51 g
• Series: Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V299813; Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V299813
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore