Expedition Naga: Diaries from the Hills in Northeast India 1921 - 1937 & 2002 - 2006 - Hardcover

Ham, Peter Van; Saul, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1851495606 ISBN 13: 9781851495603

Publisher: ACC Publishing Group, 2008

Synopsis

A vivid comparison of life in the Naga Hills in India in the 1920s and '30s and the present.

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About the Author

Peter van Ham works as an educator, author and producer of visual and acoustic media in Frankfurt, Germany. He has written extensively and even best selling on the Northeast of India and was the first foreigner to travel in the region's remotest and most restricted parts for consecutive explorations from 1996 until 2005. He has been actively involved in the production of two documentaries and three international exhibitions on the peoples of Northeast India. Together with friends from Nagaland he has formed a society for the preservation and promotion of Naga heritage (SPNH), which calls a good number of people from around the world its members. Furthermore, he is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic and Geographical Societies, London, and the Explorers Club, New York.James D. Saul was J.H. Hutton's "last student". An architect by profession, Jamie lived in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was the first to work extensively and publish on the Naga peoples of Burma since limited access to their region was granted for the first time in 2001. In addition, he was working closely with Naga and other sources in compiling a database of unpublished materials and maps of the central and eastern Naga groups, with a view to making this material available to future Naga scholars through the SPNH. In spring 2006 he passed away under tragic circumstances in the Burmese Naga Hills.

Edition details

• Publisher: ACC Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1851495606
• ISBN 13: 9781851495603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300