Cultural Preservation
Meeting the Mishmi
Posted on 01 April 2017 |
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The tea gardens outside of Dibrugarh were still cloaked in early morning mist as we drove east toward Lohit district, Arunachal Pradesh. In about five hours we would reach our destination and the starting point of our photography tour, the town of Wakro, home to the Mishmi people. Click to read moreTags: Travel, Arunachal Pradesh, North East India, Photography, Cultural Preservation, Mishmi, Wakro
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Cultural Preservation – We are in the Picture
Posted on 10 December 2016 |
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Two generations ago, Nagaland, which is situated in the rugged and remote borderland between India and Burma, was an illiterate, animist and polygamous tribal society. But with the arrival of Baptist missionaries, the region underwent a dramatic and irreversible transformation. With anything non-Christian seen as “savage”, many rituals and arts were forcibly stopped, craft skills lost and the very essence of Naga culture put at risk of being extinguished. Click to read moreTags: Travel, Nagaland, North East India, Photography, Cultural Preservation
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