The Cultural Heritage of Nagaland

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 (2021), and Constructing the Divine: Religion and World View of a Naga Tribe in North-East India (2019). 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.

Introduction PART I: HERITAGE, BELIEFS AND HISTORY 1. An Overview of Cultural Heritage of Nagaland 2. Clan, Village and the Angami Language 3. Colonial and Post-colonial Anthropology among the Nagas 4. Interaction between Colonial Agencies and Naga World-view: A Study of Social Change among the Ao Nagas, 1870-1955 5. History, Heritage and Identity: A Study onthe Kukis of Naga Hills, 1832-1963 6. Situating the Oral Narratives and History fromthe Battle of Kohima in the Second World War PART II: MEMORY CULTURE, ORAL TRADITION AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE 7. Dzükou: The Heritage and Ethereal Garden of the Nagas 8. Sacred Grove: A Culture Heritage of Nagaland 9. Changki’s Traditional Practice of Leopard Huntingand its Implication on the Nature of Culture 10. Festival and Agrarian Socio-economic Formation:The Case of the Chakhesang Naga of Nagaland 11. Preservation of Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Comparison between the Nagas and the Indigenous People of East Africa PART III: ARTEFACTS, MATERIAL CULTURE AND MNEMONIC OBJECTS 12. Gendered Body, Performance and Inscription:Shifted Meanings of Personal Adornmentsamong the Sumi Naga of Nagaland 13. Symbolism of Hair and Ornamentation 14. Cultural Values Embedded in Morung 15. Making of a Naga Heritage