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NAGA
”The Hidden World of the NAGA” is a remote region in Northeast India, which stretches from Nagaland over parts of the Indian states Manipur, Assam and Arunachal Pradesh to the Sagaing district of Upper Myanmar. It has been secluded for the last 65 years, and thus has become ”the Last Great Mystery of Asia”. Its steep gorges and elevated hilltops are inhabited by thirty ethnic groups comprehensively called ”The Naga”. Over the centuries these proud peoples, that were notorious for their headhunting activities in the past, have developed extraordinary and highly unique cultural traits.
For the first time ever ”The Hidden World of the NAGA” documents their religious customs and beliefs, their festivals as well as their art: weaving, woodcarving, dances and traditional architecture. The great number of art works shown in this magnificent book come from the renowned collections of the National Museum, New Delhi, the State Museum of Nagaland, the Museum der Kulturen, Basel and the Voelkerkundemuseum der Universitaet, Zurich as well as from private collectors, all of which have never been published before.
The unique musical traditions of the Naga, never heard before in the Western world, can be heard on a CD, which is about to be published by the Smithsonian Institution.
”The Hidden World of the Naga - Living Traditions in Northeast India and Burma”
• Preface by Alan Macfarlane, Professor at the University of Cambridge, Department of Social Anthropology
• Introduction
• Mountains upon Mountains: The Naga Cultural realm
• The Many Faces of a People
• Building Solidarity: The Village and its Morung
• Of Leopard Men and Tiger Spirits - Man and Beast in the Naga Hills
• Appeasing the Spirits, Acquiring Fertility: Naga Religious Customs
• Heroes, Warfare and Headhunting - Principles of Traditional Naga Civilisation
• The Essential Crafts: Fire, Clay and Metal, Bamboo and Cane
• Weaving an Identity – Dress, Ornaments and Adornment
• The Aesthetics of Wood
• Endnotes and Bibliography
192 pages with 294 colour- and 39 black and white illustrations and 2 maps.
Prestel Publishing Munich, Berlin, London, New York.
Format 24 x 30 cm
ISBN 3-7913-2878-6
Original price: 75 Euro, 85 USD, 55 GBP.
Die Ausstellung
"NAGA - Kopfjaeger im Schatten des Himalaya"
war vom 20. Maerz bis 29.September 2004
in vier Raeumen des
MUSEUMS DER WELTKULTUREN
Schaumainkai 37 (Hochparterre), 60594 Frankfurt am Main
zu sehen
32 Grossphotos und 150 Objekte aus den
Stirn-van Ham Archives
zusammen mit Leihgaben der Sammlungen
Wittich/Jaeger, von Miller, Franzke, Prokot
und Museum der Weltkulturen
thematisierten Kultur und Kunst
der Naga Nordost-Indiens und Burmas
.
The exhibition
"NAGA - Kopfjaeger im Schatten des Himalaya"
was shown from March 20th till September 29th, 2004
in four rooms of the
MUSEUM DER WELTKULTUREN
Schaumainkai 37 (Hochparterre), 60594 Frankfurt am Main
32 large formatted photographs and 150 objects from
the Stirn-van Ham Archives and loans from the collections
Wittich/Jaeger, von Miller, Franzke, Prokot
and Museum der Weltkulturen
visualized culture and art
of the Naga in Northeast-India and Burma