Naga identities : changing local cultures in the northeast of India /
"The Naga tribes inhabit the south-eastern foothills of the Himalayas - the border region between India and Burma. Feared as headhunters and shunned by the inhabitants of the plains the Nagas developed a unique material culture and oral tradition. By around the mid 19th century, however, Britis...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gent : [Vienna] : [Zurich] :
Snoeck ; Museum vor Völkerkunde Wien ; Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich,
2008
Gent : [Vienna] : [Zürich] : [Lanham, MD : Snoeck Publishers ; Museum für Völkerkunde Wien ; Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network], 2008 Gent : [Vienna] : [Zürich] : [Lanham, MD : Snoeck Publishers ; Museum vor Völkerkunde Wien ; Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich ; Distributed to the trade by National Book Network], 2008 |
| Edition: | 1st ed |
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| Summary: | "The Naga tribes inhabit the south-eastern foothills of the Himalayas - the border region between India and Burma. Feared as headhunters and shunned by the inhabitants of the plains the Nagas developed a unique material culture and oral tradition. By around the mid 19th century, however, British colonial rule and Baptist missionary activities brought far-reaching changes to Naga culture. After 1947, the Naga Hills were forcibly integrated into the newly formed Indian Union. The result was a bloody war that raged for more than fifty years - largely unnoticed by the public eye. Only recently the region has been reopened to foreign visitors. The present volume assembles essays by Naga and Western authors, interviews and pictorial contributions dealing with the cultural history and changing identity of the former headhunters."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Item Description: | Distributor from label on jacket |
| Physical Description: | 464 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.), music ; 28 cm 464 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-453) and index |
| ISBN: | 1555953093 9053496793 (hbk.) 9781555953096 9789053496794 (hbk.) |