• women carriers of the seed
“Wives are the vehicles through which men transmit their blood
and ties”. However polluting and dangerous, bongso depends on
Women (Fruzetti, The Gift of the Virgin, OUP, 1990).
• Women’s Rituals
“Women’s rituals … are to a large extent the domain of action
applying specifically to women … women are … complimentary
to men in the concept of the person, the constitution of
relationships among relatives, the construction of caste-kinship
Groups, the indigenous understandings of hierarchy and the
Idea of male-female relatedness” (p- 133)
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