Amoti: Four days in Asarh (July) when the earth is supposed to be unclean and the digging of earth is forbidden. A ritual observed mostly by Assamese widows. It is believed that the earth menstruates during this period.

Golokdham: A game of dice. In the dice board, portraits of various abodes of Hindu Gods are drawn. As the final goal, a Golokdham, which is known as the abode of Lord Krishna with his consort Radha and the gopis, is depicted. The dice player who reaches it, crossing all the hurdles wins the game. It was a popular game among the women of South Kamrup in those days (1948).

interpretation is not an isolated act, but takes place within a homeric battlefield, on which a host of interpretive options are either openly or implicitly in conflict

fredric jameson, the politcal unconscious: narrative as a socially symbolic act (1981) 

in french, jouissance (the surprise of orgasm, bliss, ecstasy) is distinguished from plaisir (pleasure)

interdisciplinarity is not the calm of an easy security; it begins effectively (as opposed to the mere expression of a pious wish) when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down - perhaps even violently, via the jolts of fashion - in the interests of a new object and a new language neither of which has a place in the field of the sciences that were to be brought peacefully together, this unease in classification being precisely the point from which it is possible to diagnose a certain mutation

roland barthes, from work to text (1971) 

in the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered

roland barthes, the death of the author (1967) 

the nature of bricolage is to make use of materials and tools that, unlike those of the engineer, for example, were not intended for the task in hand

gerard genette, strucutralism and literary criticism