The Angami Nagas

The Angami Nagas
Author: John Henry Hutton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1921
Genre: Assam (India)
ISBN:

The Angami Nagas

The Angami Nagas
Author: Renu Suri
Publisher: Mittal Publications
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788183240505

Study on the physical characteristics of the Angami, Indic people.

The Sema Nagas

The Sema Nagas
Author: John Henry Hutton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 592
Release: 1921
Genre: Naga (South Asian people)
ISBN:

A History of Nagas and Nagaland

A History of Nagas and Nagaland
Author: Visier Sanyu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN:

Chiefly on Angami, Indic people, from Kohima and Khonoma villages of Nagaland.

Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India

Agency and Knowledge in Northeast India
Author: Michael Heneise
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2018-08-06
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351065041

The Nagas of Northeast India give great importance to dreams as sources of divine knowledge, especially knowledge about the future. Although British colonialism, Christian missions, and political conflict have resulted in sweeping cultural and political transformations in the Indo-Myanmar borderlands, dream sharing and interpretation remain important avenues for negotiating everyday uncertainty and unpredictability. This book explores the relationship between dreams and agency through ethnographic fieldwork among the Angami Nagas. It tackles questions such as: What is dreaming? What does it mean to say ‘I had a dream’? And how do night-time dreams relate to political and social actions in waking moments? Michael Heneise shows how the Angami glean knowledge from signs, gain insight from ancestors, and potentially obtain divine blessing. Advancing the notion that dreams and dreaming can be studied as indices of relational, devotional, and political subjectivities, the author demonstrates that their examination can illuminate the ways in which, as forms of authoritative knowledge, they influence daily life, and also how they figure in the negotiation of day-to-day domestic and public interactions. Moreover, dream narration itself can involve techniques of ‘interference’ in which the dreamer seeks to limit or encourage the powerful influence of social ‘others’ encountered in dreams, such as ancestors, spirits, or the divine. Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book advances research on dreams by conceptualising how the ‘social’ encompasses the broader, co-extensive set of relations and experiences - especially with spirit entities - reflected in the ethnography of dreams. It will be of interest to those studying Northeast India, indigenous religion and culture, indigenous cosmopolitics in tribal India more generally, and the anthropology of dreams and dreaming.

The Land of the Nagas

The Land of the Nagas
Author: Aditya Arya
Publisher: Mapin Publishing Pvt
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

Today the Nagas, virtually inaccessible for centuries and known for their practice of head-hunting, find themselves in throes of change as they are exposed to the rest of the world. Here the authors capture their transition and explore what remains of the traditions of the Nagas tribes.

Zapuphizo

Zapuphizo
Author: Pieter Steyn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2012-10-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136163190

First published in 2006. This is the first biography of Angami Zapuphizo, the great patriot leader of Nagaland in the northeastern hills of South Asia, who died in exile in England in 1990. A colourful, charismatic personality with an air of mystery about him, he was the force behind the Nagas; demand for sovereign independence in 1947, at the time that Britain transferred power to India and Pakistan. From then onwards he was a central figure in the turbulent ethnic tapestry of the region. Zapuphizo's life was the stuff of which legends are made, and to the Naga people he will always be their hero. The book focuses on Zapuphizo's life, his realism and his collaboration with the Japanese in World War II, and with the years of India's military suppressions of the nationalist Naga army, giving fresh insight into Zapuphizo's thoughts and actions as he strove to regain for his homeland the ultimate goal of sovereign independence. Although Nagaland is today a state within the Union of India, the Naga peoples have never given up their wish to be free. In the years before Britain quit the Indian subcontinent, the Nagas of the far northeast were held to exemplify an exotic and quixotic society. Radically different in culture and beliefs from the better known Hindus and Muslims of the plains, they were renowned for their spirited independence and diversity. The book also gives a history of the Naga nation and surveys its present condition and future prospects.