The Nagas

Hill Peoples of Northeast India

Project Introduction The Naga Database

book : 'Konyak Nagas' by Christoph von Furer-Haimendorf, (1969)

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Chapter Two. The Social Structure and its Units

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division into wards, each based on a morung

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 40:3

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Most villages were divided into several quarters or wards, each centered on a morung which gave its name to the ward. The ward was a more closely knit social unit than the village, and we shall see presently that in many respects the morungs of villages acted as separate political units.

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