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The tomb house and the abandonment of the grave
Among the Jarai a person is not finished dying at the funeral. The marriage is not dissolved, the widow is still a wife, and adultery against a dead husband is still adultery. The grave is visited every day and offered to every month, for as long as it takes — and how long it takes is not set by custom. It is set by what the family can afford. O...
The Jarai
The Jarai are the largest of our peoples and the largest Chamic-speaking people on the mainland — larger than the Rhade, and far larger than the Cham themselves. Their country is the Pleiku plateau and the valleys falling away from it into the Ayun and the Ba, and it does not stop at the border: a fifth of Ratanakiri province in Cambodia is Jara...
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