They Ask if We Eat Frogs: Garo Ethnicity in Bangladesh

Ellen Bal

Published by ISEAS Publishing 2007

They Ask if We Eat Frogs

Garo Ethnicity in Bangladesh

Ellen Bal

https://doi.org/10.1355/9789812305916

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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 it deals with the evolution of Garo identity/ethnicity and with the progressive making of cultural characteristics that support a sense of "Garo-ness", in the context of the complex historical developments in this part of South Asia and the world. The importance of this work is not confined to a better understanding of how smaller ethnic groups form, survive or disappear in modern society. It also leads to a more comprehensive insight into how social life in the border region of South and Southeast Asia is organized and how it has transformed over time. This book will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, students, scholars of South and Southeast Asia and policy-makers.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
GLOSSARY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The History of a Persistent Image Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
3. ‘The Importance of Being Garo’: Garo Narratives of Self Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
4. Peoples without History? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
5. ‘Dual were Dual, Kochu were Kochu’: Garos Divided Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
6. Negotiable Boundaries, Negotiable Identities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
7. Garos and Christianity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
8. Garos and the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
9. Summary and Conclusion: From Tribes to Ethnic Minorities Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
REFERENCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	233
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

Language: English
Publisher: ISEAS Publishing
Pages
- Main content: 258

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Published: August 16, 2007
ISBN: 9789812305916