Anthropology

Despite the thought-provoking theological and philosophical implications of the adage urging the healer to heal him/herself, medical anthropology has, with some notable exceptions, given relatively little attention to the problems of well-being experienced by healers themselves, ...

Abstract This article juxtaposes the notion of individual agency with the Durkheimian concept of religious enthusiasm. Focusing on religious conversion among the Angami Nagas of Nagaland, 90 percent of whom are now Christian, the article shows how individuals may ...

ZELIANG, Elungkiebe,  Charismatic  Movements  in  the  Baptist  Churches  in  North  East  India:  A  Zeliangrong  Perspective.  Delhi:  ISPCK,  2014.  xli+417pp.  Pbk. ISBN 9788184653885.Charismatic  Movements  in  the  Baptist  Churches  in  North  East  India: 
A  Zeliangrong Perspective is an ambitious book in which Elungkiebe Zeliang pro-vides  a  detailed  account  of  Baptist  Christianity  and  Charismatic  revival  move-ments among the Zeliangrong Naga, who live across three northeastern federal states of India: Assam, Manipur and Nagaland. Zeliangrong is a collective term derived from the joining of the first syllables of three Naga communities, Zeme, Liangmai and Rongmei, and according to the author also incorporating a smaller, fourth group called Impui.

"This is a book that deserves to be read
widely by students of indigenous medicine
and articulations of Christianity worldwide.
Its focus on the intimate politics of the body
distinguishes it from anthropological studies
of Christianity that emphasise more overtly
political interactions between modern states,
missions and colonised peoples. Such a focus
on the politics of the body opens up exciting
possibilities of cutting-edge scholarship on
the intimacies of everyday Christianity in Asia
and beyond."

In and around Nagaland University, in northeast India, there are people who comment wryly on the importance of the Naga peoples in nurturing European anthropology in the early twentieth century, while they themselves are only now able to set up their own department in the subject. 1 They point to colonial government offi cials, missionaries, scholars and other travellers who wrote extensive ethnographies, with one, Hutton, becoming professor of social anthropology at Cambridge University, another, von-Fürer-Haimendorf, establishing the subject at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and others known for their publications and association with academic institutions, including Elwin, Mills, Balfour and Kauffmann. Political unrest and Indian Government restrictions on movement in the region thereafter reduced the possibilities for research, and a long lull ensued with few scholars able to enter the area, although some research theses in Britain were based on secondary sources (Needham

Kunz, Richard and Vibha Joshi (editors) . Naga : A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered, 2008, Museum der Kulturen Basel.

was published as complemetary text with the International Exhibition at the Museum der Kulturen Basel 2008 to 2009. Exhibition displayed for the first time German and Swiss colonial collections from the Naga community that were collected as early as late 19th Century, and  are held in Swiss in German museums. Naga Artist, Authors, Anthropologists, Filmakers and activists participated in the exhibition and authored articles in this book.

edited and sumptously illustrated  book with articles on 19th Century and early 20th Century Naga collections from Basel, Berlin and Munich, chapters on collection/collectors, Haimendorf's photography , Introduction to Nagaland, essay on Naga women, Agricultural practices, Naga jewellery, Head taking rituals, Hornbill Festivals , Naga Material culture . Published along with international exhibition on Naga collections at MKB, Basel.