Inhabitants of western Assam, India. Their language belongs to the Mon-Khmer family, and their morphology is archaic Mongoloid. Their population is estimated at about 800,000. They practice slash-and-burn cultivation of rice, corn, foxtail millet, and cotton, and also cultivate wet rice in the lowlands. They have a chiefdom, with a hierarchical hierarchy of royalty, nobility, and commoners. They have matrilineal exogamous clans, and practice matrilocal marriage. Although inheritance is practiced by youngest daughters, the position of chief is passed on to the eldest son of the eldest daughter, and political and property management is carried out by males. Ancestor worship was well developed, but like other systems, this has changed with the spread of Christianity. Their settlement is the center of megalithic culture in Assam, with menhirs, dolmens, and stone platforms, and cow sacrifices are practiced. This megalithic culture has deep ties with the Naga and Munda tribes of Assam. Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia About Encyclopaedia Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Information |
インド,アッサム西部の住民。言語はモン=クメール語族に属し,形質的には古モンゴロイドである。人口約 80万と推定される。イネ,トウモロコシ,アワ,ワタなどの焼畑耕作を営み,低地では水稲栽培も行う。首長制をもち,王族,貴族,平民の階層分化がみられる。母系外婚氏族をもち,妻方居住婚が行われる。末女相続も行われるが,首長の地位は長女の長男に継承され,政治と財産の管理は男子によって執行される。祖先崇拝が発達していたが,他の制度と同様にキリスト教の浸透とともに変化している。居住地はアッサムにおける巨石文化の中心地でメンヒル,ドルメン,石壇が存在し,牛の供犠が行われる。この巨石文化はアッサムのナーガ族やムンダ諸族とも深い関係がある。
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