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 Three. Phases of Life

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reason for taboo on strangers at childbirth

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books

ethnicgroup:

Konyak

location:

Wakching

production:

person:	Furer-Haimendorf/ C.
date:	1969
refnum:	with permission from Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York 66:6

text:

The idea underlying this custom was apparently not the fear of pollution connected with childbirth, but the belief that a newborn child was particularly vulnerable to dangerous influences emanating from strangers.

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