Reflections on a Shared Name: Taboo and Destiny in Mayong (Assam)
This article explores the cosmological entailments of a minor verbal taboo in Mayong (Central Assam). In brief, individuals who share personal names are forbidden from addressing or referring to each other by name, and instead must interpellate each other as mita (friend). Through an analysis of nam...
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| Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2015-10-01
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| Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/4027 |