Muria people

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A shirtless man with dark skin wearing a turban with flowers in it
A dark-skinned woman with a bindi, tilting her head and smiling at the camera
A Muria man and woman

The Muria are an aboriginal tribe in Chhattisgarh, India. They are a tribe of the Gondi people. The Muria live in the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh. They traditionally live by agriculture, hunting and fishing, working as a community. They are surrounded by Hindu culture, but they are animists. They have an omnivorous diet, and liquor plays a big role in their society. According to sociologists, the Muria tribe is a very harmonious society.[1]

When they reach adolescence, children leave their family houses to live in a ghotul. Pregnancy should be avoided and they are obligated to regularly change partners, in order to avoid affection. In the ghotul, the minors govern themselves and it is important to maintain social and traditional order in the group. If the rules are not respected, the children will be punished. They can be expelled from the ghotul and this can be almost as bad as death.

In the ghotul, there is no bond of affection because they want to avoid too much love before the marriage. The objective of all this organisation is to avoid divorce.

References

  1. Rosenblum (1978), La régulation naturelle des naissances, Montréal, Du jour, 203p.

Other websites

  Media related to Muria people at Wikimedia Commons



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