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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villages as distinct units in dialect and customs

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books

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 41:2

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A Konyak village constituted the framework within which all other social units operated and interacted. Its distinctive identity was often underlined by the use of a language at variance with the dialects of other villages, and certain details of material culture and customary behavior also distinguished one village from the other.

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