The Zeme people, also known as the Zeme Nagas, are a
Tibeto-Burmese
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ethnic group
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from
Northeast India
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.
Their villages are mostly spread across
Peren district
Peren District is a district of Nagaland, India. With headquarters the town of Peren, the district was formed by the partition of Kohima District in 2003.
History
The Peren district was originally a sub-division of the Kohima district. I ...
in Nagaland;
Tamenglong district
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,
Senapati district
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in Manipur and
Dima Hasao district (NC hills) in Assam.
Notable people
* Harielungbe Haralu, First Naga Medical Doctor.
*
Neichülie-ü Nikki Haralu, former Indian Ambassador
* L. Lungalang, Former Chief Secretary of Nagaland
*
Nini Lungalang Nini may refer to:
Geography
* Nini River, Ghana
* Nini Suhien National Park, Ghana
Film and television
* '' Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa'', an Italian comedy film
* '' Nini's Treehouse'', a children's television series
* Ni ...
, poet
*
Armstrong Pame, bureaucrat
*
T. R. Zeliang, former Chief Minister of Nagaland.
Bibliography
* Roy, Babul and A.N.M.I. Ali. "Shifting cultivation and forest in North East India", People of the Himalayas: Ecology, Culture, Development and Change by K. C. Mahanta, Kamla-Raj Enterprises: Delhi (1997).
* Roy, Babul. Socio-cultural and environmental dimensions of tribal health: a study among the Dimasa Kacharis and the Zemi Nagas of North Cachar Hills in Assam. PhD Thesis (unpublished), Gauhati University, Assam (1998).
* Roy, Babul. An anthropological peep at Zeme religion. Bull. Dept. Anth. Gauhati University, IX, 51-60 (1995).
* Roy, Babul. Folk Medicine and Folk Therapeutic Principle among the Zeme Nagas of N. C. Hills in Assam (India) ''Curare: Journal of Ethnomedicine and Transcultural Psychiatry''
ermanySole 2001, Vol. 24, No. 1 & 2, pages 161-164. Refereed Int.
* Roy, Babul. Zeme Naga Ethno-medicines and animal related practices. ''Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology''
ermany Sole 2010, Vol.33, No.1+2, pages 97–104. Refereed Int.
* Roy, Babul. Evolving Gender Relationships among the Zeme Nagas of North Cachar Hills (Assam). ''Journal of Indian Anthropological Society''
ndia Ndia or NDIA may refer to:
*Ndia Constituency, Kirinyaga District, Central Province, Kenya
*Alternative name for the Southern Kirinyaga dialect of the Kikuyu language
*National Defense Industrial Association, an American trade association
*Nationa ...
Sole 2004, Vol. 38, pages 9–20. Refereed Nat.
* Roy, Babul. Folk Perception of Disease and Curative Measures among the Zeme Nagas of North Cachar Hills in Assam. ''Journal of Indian Anthropological Society''
ndia Ndia or NDIA may refer to:
*Ndia Constituency, Kirinyaga District, Central Province, Kenya
*Alternative name for the Southern Kirinyaga dialect of the Kikuyu language
*National Defense Industrial Association, an American trade association
*Nationa ...
Sole 2004, Vol. 39, pages 57–66. Refereed Nat.
* Bower, Ursula Graham.1952. Naga Path. London: Reader Union, John Murray.
* Bower, Ursula Graham.1950. Drums Behind the Hill. New York: William Morrow and Company.
* Bower, Ursula Graham.1950.Village Organisation among the Central Nzemi Nagas, Diploma in Anthropology Thesis. London: University College London.
References
External links
www.nambon.com- Zeliangrong community information gap
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