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Aoleang

Aoleang

2016•30m
Documentary

Tracing their origins to the region around the Tigris and Euphrates River basin in western Asia, the head-hunting Konyak tribe of Nagaland, which embraced Christianity, is now trying to rediscover itself and its fading culture.

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies

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EN

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