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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aristocratic, intermediate and commoner clans in Thenkoh villages

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Konyak

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person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 52:2

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Yet, in the villages of both groups society was divided into aristocratic clans, clans of intermediate status, and commoner clans. Whereas in a village such as Wakching the members of chiefly clans enjoyed few tangible privileges, the chief of a large Thendu village wielded the arbitrary power of a true autocrat.

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