ABSTRACT
The problem with having two homes, Bahenji,” said Mangala as they walked toward her home village, “is that wherever you are, you worry about the other.” “Absolutely,” said Charity. She tried to remember Mangala s
words in the mountain dialect so that she could later write them in her notebook; they would be a nice addition to the chapter she was trying to revise on women’s views of patrilocality and village exogamy as depicted in folksongs.
