The Ao- Naga Oral Tradition has been widely appreciated as a representative work in the field of Ao - Naga Oral - Cultural practices, the first one to be written by an insider after colonial anthropological writings about the Nagas. The work is informative and engaging: informative because the analytic perspective that it provides goes beyond the colonial construction: engaging because the work derives its energy from the author's intimate cultural experience. As a creative writer, she brings her cultural sensitives into her writing. The work is of 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 description' of oral cultures. Such work will certainly enrich the Ao- Naga enthnic knowledge archive.

AUTHOR: Temsula Ao

TITLE: The Ao Naga Oral Tradition

PUBLISHER: Heritage Publishing House

COVER: Paperback

ORIGIN: Nagaland

DELIVERY: PAN India