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The Cultural Heritage of Nagaland book cover

1st Edition

The Cultural Heritage of Nagaland

Edited By G. Kanato Chophy, Sarit K. Chaudhuri Copyright 2023
350 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

350 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume gives an in-depth account of cultural heritage of Nagaland covering important themes like cultural beliefs, traditional knowledge, material culture, and social institutions. Contributors from diverse dis­ciplines and backgrounds have delved into the cultural heritage of the state’s variegated tribes. Nagaland a hilly state in North-East India had been the centre of British... Read more

Introduction

G. Kanato Chophy and Sarit K. Chaudhuri

PART I: HERITAGE, BELIEFS AND HISTORY

1. An Overview of Cultural Heritage of Nagaland

Temsula Ao

2. Clan, Village and the Angami Language

Kelhouvinuo Suokhrie

3. Colonial and Post-colonial Anthropology among the Nagas

Debojyoti Das

4. Interaction between Colonial Agencies and Naga World-view: A Study of Social Change among the Ao Nagas, 1870-1955

Robin Temsu

5. History, Heritage and Identity: A Study onthe Kukis of Naga Hills, 1832-1963

David Hanneng

6. Situating the Oral Narratives and History fromthe Battle of Kohima in the Second World War

Keneiseno Neihu

PART II: MEMORY CULTURE, ORAL TRADITION AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

7. Dzükou: The Heritage and Ethereal Garden of the Nagas

Visakhonu Hibo and Kedilezo Kikhi

8. Sacred Grove: A Culture Heritage of Nagaland

Lanukumla Ao

9. Changki’s Traditional Practice of Leopard Huntingand its Implication on the Nature of Culture

Tiasunep

10. Festival and Agrarian Socio-economic Formation:The Case of the Chakhesang Naga of Nagaland

Imnuksungla Pongen

11. Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Comparison between the Nagas and the Indigenous People of East Africa

Ngutoli Y Swu

PART III: ARTEFACTS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND MNEMONIC OBJECTS

12. Gendered Body, Performance and Inscription:Shifted Meanings of Personal Adornmentsamong the Sumi Naga of Nagaland

Avitoli G. Zhimo

13. Symbolism of Hair and Ornamentation

Mhonyani Sangma

14. Cultural Values Embedded in Morung

Vivolhuno Punyü

15. Making of a Naga Heritage

Sayantan Maitra Boka

Biography

G. Kanato Chophy is Assistant Professor at Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. He has earlier been Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Centre for North-East India Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is the author of Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism (2021), and Constructing the Divine: Religion and World View of a Naga Tribe in North-East India (2019).

Sarit K. Chaudhuri was the former Director of IGRMS, Bhopal, and is currently working as Professor & Dean, Faculty of Social Sci­ences at the Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh.

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