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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