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NAGA IDENTITIES Changing Local Cultures in the Northeast of India
INDIA.( NAGA PEOPLE )OPPITZ, Michael; Thomas Kaiser, Alban von Stockhausen, Marion Wettstein
Language: English
Published by Snoeck Publishing / Ethnographic Museum of Zurich, Gent, BE, 2008
- Hardcover
- First Edition
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Quarto, 464 pages, cloth; short tears on dj "It is this self-image of the Nagas today that is the pivotal point to all of the topics addressed in the present book. . The polyphony of the voices and instruments is the expression of numerous identiti…es through which the self-image of the Nagaz flows into ever new forms." - Preface. Bluntly, it is all here, at least up until 2000 C.E. or so. Illustrated. The first results of the project. "Material Culture, Oral Traditions and Identity among the Naga of Northeast India" are presented here. Feared as headhunters and shunned by the inhabitants of the plains the Nagas developed a unique material culture and oral tradition.
