The Konyak Nagas
Subtitle: an Indian frontier tribe
By: by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf.
Series: Case studies in cultural anthropology
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Subjects: Konyak Nagas.
Table of contents: title: Material background. Environment -- Weapons -- Appearance, dress, and ornament -- Tools and household implements -- Crafts and techniques -- Villages -- Community houses -- Houses -- Land tenure and agriculture -- Daily life in a Konyak village -- The social structure and its units. The village community -- Morungs as social units -- Clans and lineages -- Chiefs and commoners -- Phases of life. Pregnancy and birth -- Childhood -- Premarital sexual relations and betrothal -- Marriage -- Divorce, adultery, and illegitimacy -- The marital affairs of a Wakching family -- Economic obligations between affines -- Death and funerary rites -- Religious beliefs and practices. The fate of the soul -- Head-hunting rites -- The cult of the Sky God -- Present and future -- Appendix : kinship terminology -- Recommended reading.