International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 9
First page : ( 534) Last page : ( 546)
Online ISSN : 2249–2496.

An Ethnographic Study on Traditional Marietal Rituals & Practices among Bhumij Tribe of Bankura District, West Bengal, India

Kanrar Priyanka

Junior Research Fellow (UGC-NET), Department of Anthropology, University of Calcutta

Online published on 5 August, 2019.

Abstract

Marriage is the physical, mental and spiritual union of two souls. It brings significant stability and substance to human relationships. Every ethnic community follows their own traditional marietal rituals and practices. Any ethnographic study of a ethnic group is incomplete without the knowledge of marietal practices of that community. So, the main objectives of the present study is to find out the types of marriages which was held among this Bhumij tribes. Also o find out the rules of marriage of this village. Know about the detail description about Bhumij traditional marriage rituals and practices. And also to find out the step by step marital rituals practices of this tribal population-from Pre-marital rituals to the Post-marital rituals practices. Mainly case study method is used for primary data collection. Case study method is very much useful for collect a very detail data from a particular individual. This method is very much applicable for this present study. Another method is observation method. It is simply used when primary data were collected. Observation method also very much applicable for this study. The Bhumij tribe of Barameytala village mainly practice the arrange marriage system, and their rules of marriage is Endogamy. The people only marry their insider's member. This way they maintain their social unity and tribal purity. After study on their details of marital ritual practices, it is clear that till now they practices their own traditional rituals and this such unique rituals are followed by generations after generations.

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