Download or read book The Konyaks written by Phejin Konyak and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - The first time such intensive research and documentation on Konyak tattoo art has been undertaken - An overall view of the Konyak people, their society, way of life and the culture in detail The Konyaks - a once fearsome headhunting tribe in Nagaland on the border of Myanmar in northeast India - are well known for their iconic body and facial tattoos, originally earned for taking an enemy's head. This book - over four years in the making - is the personal journey of a Konyak woman who retraces the steps of her grandfather and great-grandfather by documenting her tribe's tattooing practices. She explores the Konyak's concept of beautification of the body using it as a canvas for art, with inscriptions marked on the skin as a form of rite of passage and cycle of life. With elegant and powerful portraits of elders, both men and women, this book preserves the unique but vanishing practices of the culture, together with tattoo patterns, their meanings, and the oral traditions attached to them in folktales, songs, poems and sayings. It includes descriptions and information on headhunting and tattooing practices; reasons behind them; techniques used; tattoo artists; different tattoo groups; types of tattoos; and personal stories. Contents: The Konyaks; Headhunting; Traditional Tattooing Art; Tattoo Artist; Face Tattoo Group SHEN-TU; Body Tattoo Group TANGTA-TU; Nose Tattoo Group KONG-TU; The Last of the Tattooed Headhunters; Glossary.

Download or read book Among the Headhunters written by Robert Lyman and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flying the notorious "Hump" route between India and China in 1943, a twin-engine plane suffered mechanical failure and crashed in a dense mountain jungle, deep within Japanese-held territory. Among the passengers and crew were celebrated CBS journalist Eric Sevareid, an OSS operative who was also a Soviet double agent, and General Joseph "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's personal political adviser. Against the odds, all but one of the twenty-one people aboard the doomed aircraft survived-it remains the largest civilian evacuation of an aircraft by parachute. But they fell from the frying pan into the fire. Disentangling themselves from their parachutes, the shocked survivors discovered that they had arrived in wild country dominated by a tribe with a special reason to hate white men. The Nagas were notorious headhunters who routinely practiced slavery and human sacrifice, their specialty being the removal of enemy heads. Japanese soldiers lay close by, too, with their own brand of hatred for Americans. Among the Headhunters tells-for the first time-the incredible true story of the adventures of these men among the Naga warriors, their sustenance from the air by the USAAF, and their ultimate rescue. It is also a story of two very different worlds colliding-young Americans, exuberant apostles of their country's vast industrial democracy, coming face-to-face with the Naga, an ancient tribe determined to preserve its local power based on headhunting and slaving.

Download or read book Head hunting Nagas written by Paolo Sponz and published by . This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The head-hunting Naga tribes believed that a vital and creative energy resided in a human head, which when brought back to the village, granted fertility to life and agriculture. The elders in the Naga villages today are the sole repositories of this surprisingly rich tradition, and through their testimonies, this investigative compilation documents what is known about those ancient customs, which governed their former way of life. Assembled in this book is also an anthology of the tales and songs that carry the history of the Naga people, along with models of appropriate behavior expected within their community.

Download or read book Head hunters Culture written by Joseph S. Thong and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ancient Naga head hunters lives and tales in prose and poetry written by Tsuknug Penzu and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 2009 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Land of the Nagas written by Aditya Arya and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book From Head Hunters to Church Planters written by Paul Hattaway and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2006-04-03 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amazing story of revival among Nagas in northeast India.

Download or read book The Nagas written by Julian Jacobs and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nagas of Northeast India, radically different in culture and beliefs from the better-known Hindu peoples of the plains, were renowned in the years before Indian independence for their fierce resistance to British rule and for their practice of head-hunting. Although sharing many social and cultural traits, the thousands of small Naga villages often vary greatly from one another, and the Nagas display both unity and diversity in their dress and ornament. Their vibrant material culture is generously illustrated here in color photographs that display textiles, basketry, jewelry, weapons, metalwork, and carvings. Drawing on a diverse range of historical materials, the authors examine how the notion of tribes came to be applied to the Nagas and point out its subsequent importance in the development of contemporary Naga nationalism.

Download or read book The Angami Nagas written by John Henry Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Back to Jerusalem written by Brother Yun and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-01-04 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The powerful spiritual vision of the Chinese church to send 100,000 missionaries across China's borders to complete the Great Commission, even in this generation.

Download or read book The Ao Nagas written by James Philip Mills and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Headhunting Nagas of Arunachal Pradesh written by LOWANGCHA WANGLAT and published by Notion Press. This book was released on with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ball of Fire written by Antony Brett-James and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naga Cultural Attires and Musical Instruments written by Kajen Mongro and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Naga Textiles written by Marion Wettstein and published by Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this comprehensive work is the aesthetics and the decryption of the language of the textiles of the Nagas, a group of tribal local cultures in the north-east of India and the north-west of Burma. For more than ten years, anthropologist Marion Wettstein has systematically been drawing the traditional fabrics, and researching their design, production techniques, meaning and contemporary transposition into fashion. More than 60 color pencil drawings and 180 watercolors on the morphology of the textile samples are considered by the author to be not just an artistic translation but in particular visual argumentation. While the work shows how the textile patterns are laden with meaning of a complex system of status and social structure, it also illuminates what is understood by these concepts in the context of the Nagas and to what extent they are also constructs of colonial and scientific intervention.

Download or read book The Konyak Nagas written by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf and published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston. This book was released on 1969 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The N ga Tribes of Manipur written by Thomas Callan Hodson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnological study of the people of Manipur in India.