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Naga : a forgotten mountain region rediscovered

Title
Naga : a forgotten mountain region rediscovered / Richard Kunz, Vibha Joshi (eds.).
Publication
Basel : Museum der Kulturen Basel : Christoph Merian, c2008.

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Additional Authors
  • Kunz, Richard.
  • Joshi, Vibha.
  • Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.
  • Museum der Kulturen Basel.
  • Ethnologisches Museum Berlin.
  • Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München.
Description
200 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps; 28 cm.
Subject
  • Museum der Kulturen Basel > Exhibitions
  • Naga (South Asian people) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
  • Naga (South Asian people) > Material culture > Exhibitions
  • Naga (South Asian people) > Social conditions > Exhibitions
  • Naga Hills (India) > Social life and customs > Exhibitions
Note
  • "Catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Naga - a forgotten mountain region rediscovered' in the Museum der Kulturen Basel, August 22, 2008-May 17, 2009"--T.p. verso.
  • Col. maps inside front and back flaps.
  • Exhibition includes objects from the collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel, the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin and the Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-199).
Contents
Introduction / Richard Kunz, Wibke Lobo, Wolfgang Stein -- Photographs by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf from the 1930s -- An introduction to Professor Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf's Naga photographs / Alan Macfarlane -- The land and the people [photographs] -- The Naga : an introduction / Vibha Joshi -- Head-hunting in its socio-religious context / Peter van Ham -- Log-drums - ceremonial objects of the central and northern Nagas / Richard Kunz -- Angami village gates kharu / Vibha Joshi -- Head-hunting and morung [objects] -- Women in Naga society / Vibha Joshi -- Jewellery as symbols of identity and status / Ayinla Shilu Ao -- Textile art and household [objects] -- Agricultural cycle, associated rituals and the role of women / Anungla Aier -- Cultivation, household and agricultural feasts [objects] -- Feasts and festivals / Vibha Joshi -- Ceremonial dress and ornaments [objects] -- 'Cultural extravagance' and the search for identity in present-day Nagaland / Alban von Stockhausen and Marion Wettstein -- Epilogue - Critina Fessler : work-cycle Nagaland-transfer 1992-2008 / Richard Kunz.
ISBN
  • 9783856163815
  • 3856163816
OCLC
  • ocn245517001
  • SCSB-14439753
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library