Passing Things On: Ancestors and genealogies in northeast india / Michael Heneise,

Chapter-1: Introduction;
Chapter-2: Searching for ancestors: recognizing Marguerite Milward's Naga portraits;
Chapter-3: Stories in a curiosity box: John Henry Hutton the administrator-collector;
Chapter-4: The impact of globalization on Naga art;
Chapter-5: Elusive identities: negotiating self, community and nation at the borders;
Chapter-6: 'Something like wind, unusual thing came': the great Evangelical revivals of the 1950s and 1970s in the memories of somesumi Naga;
Chapter-7: Charhepi's song: Karbi women's funeral lament;

The ethnographic encounter has, more often than not, yielded the outsider's perspective. In this volume, local and international voices engaging the field and the archive interrogate objects and a few of anthropology's ancestors. In this way, fresh insights are gained that enrich our understanding of colonial history, the motivations of its many actors, and what it means for ethnographic collections, contemporary expressions and communities of origin. Invariably, through this exercise the authors of this volume too become entangled in the genealogies of objects, of subjects and of their mediators. As museums in Europe and the UK open up their collections to meaningful forms of exchange indeed precipitating a returned of culture - the theories found throughout this volume can elucidate these new encounters. This is an important intellectual exercise as certainly unearthing the ghosts of colonialism will yield new responses, and their effects may extend beyond the control of ancestors, of ancestors, of genealogies and anthropological theories.