Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Snoeck Publishing / Ethnographic Museum of Zurich, Gent, BE, 2008
ISBN 10: 9053496793 ISBN 13: 9789053496794
Anbieter: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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 identities 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.