The Nagas: Hill Peoples in Northeast India - Softcover

Jacobs, Julian

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9780500974711: The Nagas: Hill Peoples in Northeast India

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500974713 ISBN 13: 9780500974711

Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 1999

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The Nagas of Northeast India, radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindu peoples of the plains, were renowned in the years before Indian independence for their fierce resistance to British rule and for their practice of head-hunting. Although sharing many social and cultural traits, the thousands of small Naga villages often vary greatly from one another, and the Nagas display both unity and diversity in their dress and ornament. Their vibrant material culture is generously illustrated here in color photographs that display textiles, basketry, jewelry, weapons, metalwork, and carvings. Drawing on a diverse range of historical materials, the authors examine how the notion of tribes came to be applied to the Nagas and point out its subsequent importance in the development of contemporary Naga nationalism.

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A valuable pictorial supplement...will be welcomed by students of highland Northeast India and Burma. -- American Anthropologist

An indispensable volume. -- Ornament

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