ABSTRACT
If, for many couples, the Sohrae festival tempers the shock of parting and makes easier the loss of early freedom, there remains a small minority who even after marriage are still unreconciled to their parents’ choice. In these circumstances, one of two things may happen. Slowly and reluctantly the husband and wife may begin cohabitation and even if their thoughts are still on their former friends, they may gradually come to accept each other as permanent partners. Once it is clear that either partner to a marriage is quite unwilling to live with the other, divorce is the accepted tribal remedy. With divorce a girl loses her status as a wife and all the respect which accrued to her as the manager of a separate household. She returns to her village and joins her father’s family.
