Naga identities. Changing local cultures in the northeast of India

by Michael Oppitz, Alban von Stockhausen, Thomas Kaiser, Marion

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First edition

Gent: Snoeck Publishers, 2008 . First edition, 4to, pp. 464; illustrated throughout, much in color; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. The Naga tribes inhabit the southeastern foothills of the Himalayas in the border area between India and Burma. Feared as headhunters and avoided by the inhabitants of the plains until around a hundred years ago, they developed a highly particular material culture and oral tradition in isolation. British colonial rule and

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