Untying the knot

The outer archives are busy

by Galit Hasan-Rokem, David Dean Shulman

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The Gonds of central India perform a ritual when a member of their tribe is dying: at night, the adult men divide into two groups and gather at the boundary of the village; one group chants riddles to the beat of a drum, and the other group searches for the answers.

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