Clan, marriage practices and kinship terms amongst the Ao and Sema Nagas
In many Naga communities the bonds, duties and obligations of the clan cuts across religious bonds, for instance, the non-Christian Konyaks helping the Konyaks of the same clan in building a church in Wanching (Haimendorf: 1973:5). Conversely, despite conversion to Christianity. many Christian Nagas...
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179210 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | In many Naga communities the bonds, duties and obligations of the clan cuts across religious bonds, for instance, the non-Christian Konyaks helping the Konyaks of the same clan in building a church in Wanching (Haimendorf: 1973:5). Conversely, despite conversion to Christianity. many Christian Nagas still observe the old customs (Sreedhar: 1980). Amongst the Semas, the bonds of kinship pervade every aspect of the social and religious life. For instance, when the maternal aunt of a man gets married. he is expected to offer certain specified items as presents to his maternal aunt, and her husband in his turn is expected to return these presents at the time of the marriage of his wi. si. son. son. |
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