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shame of photographing boys with girls |
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After I have changed my sweat-soaked clothes I go through the village with Chingai and some men. (121) The Oting coolies are still in Wangla and are just singing together with the Wangla beauties on the verandah of the house of a gaonbura. I wanted to photograph them and as it was too dark under the overhanging roof Chingai told them to come out into the open. They didn't mind but they did not want to be photographed together with the girls. Yes, separately, one time the girls, then the boys, that I could do without problems, but together it was too embarrassing. It would be 'shorom', to use that word which includes a whole step-ladder of concepts from embarrassment to confusion to the worst shame. |
