Naga Identities:
Oppitz, Michael.
Naga Identities: Changing local cultures in the Northeast of India / Michael Oppitz | Thomas Kaiser | Alban Von Stockhausen | Marion Wettstein - 1st ed. - Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2008. - 464 p. ; Hard-Bound, 28 cm.
Preface ;
The Nagas: An introduction;
Col. Woodthorpe: Surveyor-Draftsman-Ethnographer;
Naga identity: Enduring heritage;
Creating Naga: Identity between colonial construction, political calculation, and religious instrumentalisation;
Warrior ornaments;
Interview with allem longkumer;
Cultural construction of nationalism: Myths, legends and memories;
Interview with chingmak kejong;
Changes in the Naga family;
Scenes of agricultural and daily life;
Defeated warriors, successful weavers;
Wrap skirts and shawl;
Naga basketry with special reference to the Chang and Khiamniungan Nagas;
Interview with S. Ayim Longkumer;
The log drum;
The art of Naga woodcarving;
On the music of the Naga societies of Northeast India (and Burma);
Interview with Theja Meru;
The songs of the Nagas;
Everyday life, agriculture, hunting and crafts;
The stories stones tell: Naga oral stories and culture;
Interview with Talimeren Jamir;
Shadows and tigers: Concepts of soul and tiger-men;
Interview with reverend noklen longkumer;
Scenes of everyday life in historical photographs;
The Naga language group within the tibeto-burman language family;
Archaeology of local cultures: New findings and interpretations in Nagaland;
Interview with jose mukala, bishop ofKohima;
Jewellery;
Chrisroph von Furer-Haimendorf-collector and chronicler of the Nagas between two fronts;
The digitization of Naga collections in the west and the > return of culture<;
Interview with Kaka D. Iralu;
Religion today;
Pluralistic beliefs: Christianity and healing among the Angami Nagas;
Circling the Altar stone: Bhuban pilgrimage and the symbolism of religious traditions;
Interview with a young Naga women;
Fashion trends in contemporary Nagaland;
Lists and credits;
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 wre 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 culture history and changing identity of the former headhunters.
9789053496794
305.809541 / OPP
Naga Identities: Changing local cultures in the Northeast of India / Michael Oppitz | Thomas Kaiser | Alban Von Stockhausen | Marion Wettstein - 1st ed. - Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2008. - 464 p. ; Hard-Bound, 28 cm.
Preface ;
The Nagas: An introduction;
Col. Woodthorpe: Surveyor-Draftsman-Ethnographer;
Naga identity: Enduring heritage;
Creating Naga: Identity between colonial construction, political calculation, and religious instrumentalisation;
Warrior ornaments;
Interview with allem longkumer;
Cultural construction of nationalism: Myths, legends and memories;
Interview with chingmak kejong;
Changes in the Naga family;
Scenes of agricultural and daily life;
Defeated warriors, successful weavers;
Wrap skirts and shawl;
Naga basketry with special reference to the Chang and Khiamniungan Nagas;
Interview with S. Ayim Longkumer;
The log drum;
The art of Naga woodcarving;
On the music of the Naga societies of Northeast India (and Burma);
Interview with Theja Meru;
The songs of the Nagas;
Everyday life, agriculture, hunting and crafts;
The stories stones tell: Naga oral stories and culture;
Interview with Talimeren Jamir;
Shadows and tigers: Concepts of soul and tiger-men;
Interview with reverend noklen longkumer;
Scenes of everyday life in historical photographs;
The Naga language group within the tibeto-burman language family;
Archaeology of local cultures: New findings and interpretations in Nagaland;
Interview with jose mukala, bishop ofKohima;
Jewellery;
Chrisroph von Furer-Haimendorf-collector and chronicler of the Nagas between two fronts;
The digitization of Naga collections in the west and the > return of culture<;
Interview with Kaka D. Iralu;
Religion today;
Pluralistic beliefs: Christianity and healing among the Angami Nagas;
Circling the Altar stone: Bhuban pilgrimage and the symbolism of religious traditions;
Interview with a young Naga women;
Fashion trends in contemporary Nagaland;
Lists and credits;
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 wre 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 culture history and changing identity of the former headhunters.
9789053496794
305.809541 / OPP