Abstract
ABSTRACT This article is an attempt to critically analyze and document the rigbo – a group work framework in the context of the larger call to Indigenize social work practices. The article explores “rigbo culture” of the Mising community in Assam, India. It is a traditional framework for social group work practice rooted in a sense of mutual aid in the community. Adapting socio-cultural sensitivity in locating a framework for Indigenous group work practice, the article illustrates the trajectories of an undocumented traditional practice of a tribal community in the realm of social group work practice. The traditional practice of group work as a part of the village community system has undergone transformation leading to its subsequent replacement by the Self Help Group institutions. Locating cultural traditions and values in the contexts of place and historical time, the article argues for the decolonization of professional knowledge.
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