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082			_223 _a398.0954165 _bAO
100			_aAo, Temsula.
245			_aThe Ao - Naga Oral Tradition:/ _cTemsula Ao
250			_a2nd ed.
260			_aNagaland: _bHeritage Publishing House, _c2012.
300			_axx; 200 p. _bHard-Bound, _c23 cm.
505			_aThe 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;
520			_aThe 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.
760			_b2nd ed.
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