This volume gives an in-depth account of cultural heritage of Nagaland covering important themes like cultural beliefs, traditional knowledge, material culture, and social institutions. Contributors from diverse disciplines and backgrounds have delved into the cultural heritage of the state’s variegated tribes. Nagaland a hilly state in North-East India had been the centre of British colonialism and American Baptist mission. This cultural contact is significantly reflected in the socio-cultural life, and the contributors have shed light on the continuities and changes. This volume highlights the multiplicity of cultural traditions that are specific to various tribes inhabiting sixteen districts of Nagaland, since their experiences of modernity and cultural contact with ‘others’ have been diverse. The contributors have mainly focussed on the cultural heritage of the majority Naga tribes, but other tribes like the Kukis and Kacharis are part and parcel of the cultural melting pot of Nagaland, and this volume in a way underscores the cultural exchange and interactions. About the Author G. Kanato Chophy is Assistant Professor at Department of Anthropology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. He has earlier been Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Centre for North-East India Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. He is the author of Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism (221), and Constructing the Divine: Religion and World View?of?a?Naga?Tribe?in?North-East?India?(219). Sarit K. Chaudhuri was the former Director of IGRMS, Bhopal, and is currently working as Professor & Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences at the Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal?Pradesh. \n
G. Kanato Chophy is Assistant Professor at Department of Anthro?pology, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh, Assam. He has earlier been Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Centre for North-East India Studies, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha. Sarit K. Chaudhuri was the former Director of IGRMS, Bhopal, and is currently working as Professor & Dean, Faculty of Social Sci?ences at the Department of Anthropology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Rono Hills, Arunachal Pradesh.
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