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Chapter One. The Naga Hills |
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previous published materials on the Nagas |
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In preparing myself for field research among the Nagas I could lean on a considerable body of ethnographic material gathered by British district officers who had been stationed in the Naga Hills over long periods. Several of these district officers had taken a keen interest in the cultural life of the tribes in their charge, and their findings had been published in a series of monographs containing a wealth of information. As early as 1911 T.C. Hodson had published a book on the Naga Tribes of Manipur, and J.H. Hutton, for many years Deputy Commissioner of the Naga Hills district and subsequently Professor of Social Anthropology in Cambridge, followed with detailed accounts of the Angami and Sema Nagas. |
