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The Nongkrem Puja in the Khasi Mountains (Assam)
Anthropos • 4 • Published In 1909 • Pages: 892-902 , plates [HRAF ms: 1-18 ]
By: Becker, C., Knight, Elizabeth.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Becker describes the great annual sacrifice which takes place in May, its preparations, the sacrificial feast and the celebrations that follow. A brief description of the folk dances is included. The photographs at the end of the article indicate the costumes, ornament and instruments used throughout the ceremonial.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Khasi
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1996
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Missionary
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Helen Takacs ; 1956
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Meghalaya, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- C. Becker
- Translation of: Die Nongkrem-Puja in den Khasi-Bergen (Assam).
- The original German text is not included
- Translated from the German for Human Relations Area Files by Elizabeth Knight
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Khasi (Indic people)