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Love, Courtship and Marriage in Rural Bhutan : A Preliminary Ethnography of Wamling Village in Zhemgang

Author :  Dorji Penjore

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Country
Bhutan
Publisher
Galing Printers and Publishers
ISBN 9789993623151
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2009
Bib. Info Xi, 186p.;21cm.
Product Weight 280 gms.
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Love, courtship and marriage in rural Bhutan is about Bomena, a “custom whereby a boy stealthily enters a girls’ house at night for courtship or coitus with or without prior consultation”. Commonly misunderstood in Bhutan as ‘night hunting’. The use of a vernacular word Bomena, not ‘ night hunting’, a term loaded with ethnocentrism and ignorance of the custom, tells a lot this original village ethnography

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