TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS SYSTEMS OF THE RENGMA NAGAS
Year: 2005
148pp
ISBN: 9788183640039 (HB) · Hardback
The book deals with the origin and migration of Rengma Nagas, the tribes, now settled in the North-East region of India, their ancestral animistic religious beliefs, faiths and ceremonies, social, economic and cultural practices, feasts which continue to be practiced by the community. It also includes some folk tales.
Kenilo Kath is Research Fellow of the Department of History and Archeology, Nagaland University, Kohima, Nagaland and was a Fellow of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
PREFACE
ORIGIN, MIGRATION AND DISPERSAL
ANCESTOR RELIGION
ANIMAL HUNTING
BIRTH AND DEATH CEREMONIES
MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
MEDICINE MAN
FEAST OF MERIT
FESTIVAL: NGADA OR AKHU FESTIVAL
FOLK TALES
REFERENCES
INDEX