Section Anthropology & Archaeology

Section Anthropology & Archaeology
Title Utility of marriage procedure in the search of the
identity of an unknown group
In general practice, marriage is a matter of different patterns with a universal definition.
Due to the occurrence of difference in marriages, we define different groups and these
patterns make them unique from others. But marriage is not only the matter of definition
and permission of union of opposite sex to live together and fix the identity of children by
this relation. Marriage is a process, which occurs its completion by the stratified rituals.
So these stratified rituals are very useful in the identification of a group, because the
environment influences these.
When any literature about a group is not available. And every government records even
district gazetteer is also silent. If that group is poor and illiterate, who could not tell about
their past and history. It is a difficult situation, when government is not giving them caste
certificate due to the absence of their caste and history in the government records. that
group is also not under the SC/ST/OBC. Meaning there by their reality is behind the
curtain and are socially boycotted by the rest of the society of the concerned city. No
social mobility is possible. In this situation, the only solution of this problem may be
searched in their cultural life. So I have taken marriage pattern as a parameter to know
the reality of an unknown group.