Abstract: The tribal group of Mara has a distinct social culture such as dormitory of young men. Dormitory means a culture of young men visit to unmarried girl they admired most and they slept there as group every night until she got married. Such dormitory culture distinguishes Mara tribe from other tribal groups Myanmar and India. From here on, such dormitory culture of Mara will be denoted as dormitory. Dormitory was commonly known as Laipho in Mara. The dormitory had been prevailed in the Mara society since time of immemorial. If the girl got married with a man from the visiting group or someone else, the young men group changed to visit another house of a girl whom they admired again. It is the place for the young men not only the visiting place for their love affair but also a kind of library where they shared indigenous knowledge as a centre of learning social behaviour and moral conduct. The objective of this paper is to explore the influence of the dormitory in Mara society and its evolutionary changes due to the forces of Christianity and modernization.
Keywords: Dormitory, Laipho, Changes, Mara Tribe.
Title: EVOLUTION OF DORMITORY TRADITION IN MARA TRIBE
Author: Ram Kyin Khaing, Khaivatha
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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