The Ao - Naga Oral Tradition:/ Temsula Ao

The People and the Oral Tradition;
The Ao- Naga Society;
The Ao-Naga Belief System;
Myths and Tales in the Oral Tradition;
Tales from the Oral Tradition;
Transformational Tales;
Some Animal Tales;
Some Tales of the Supernatural;
Some other Tales;
Some Heroine Oriented Tales;
The Ao-Naga Language;

The book has been widely appreciated as a representative worl in the field of Ao-Naga oral-cultural practices, the first one to be written by an insider after colonial anthropological writings about Nagas. The work is formative and engaging: Informative because the analytical perspective that it provides goes beyond the colonial constructions; engaging because the work derives its energy from the author's intimate cultural experience. As a creative writer, she brings her cultural sensitiveness into her writing. The work is of a different order in which Prof. Ao deepens the dialogic relation with her own cultural archive in weaving diverse threads of Ao Naga oral-cultural practices into a multi-coloured quilt. I wish more books to come out of her pen, for generations of scholars and students will immensely benefit from her deep insights in understanding the 'thick descriptions' of oral cultures, Such work will certainly enrich the Ao-Naga Ethnic knowledge archive.