{"product_id":"reworking-culture-erik-de-maaker-9788194831693","title":"Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North East India","description":"\u003cem\u003eReworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India\u003c\/em\u003e 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 characterised 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. \u003cem\u003eReworking Culture\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Erik de Maaker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 8194831695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9788194831693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.69h x 5.84w x 0.91d","brand":"Erik de Maaker","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069804212479,"sku":"9788194831693","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c5927973-d19b-4d8f-b558-afbcfb38e53f.jpg?v=1685426591","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/reworking-culture-erik-de-maaker-9788194831693","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}