A Ceremonial Ox of India: The Mithan in Nature, Culture, and History, with Notes on the Domestication of Common Cattle |
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The Animal | 3 |
The Mithans Place in the Bovine World | 14 |
Part II | 35 |
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agricultural Angami Apa Tani Assam Assamese bamboo banteng believe Bhutan Bibos bovines breed bride-price buffalo Burma Carey and Tuck Çatal Hüyük ceremonies chickens Chin groups Chin Hills Chittagong Hills clan common cattle crops culture Dafla dead death deities domestic animals Falam Falam Chin feast giver Feasts of Merit fertility fields forest Fürer-Haimendorf gaur gayal headhunting heads herd Hill Miri hunting Hutton hybrid important India involved Kauffmann killed Konyak kouprey Kuki Lakher land Lehman Lhota life-force Lushai male Manipur meat milk Mills Minyong Mishmi mithan bulls mithan country mithan cows mithan horns mithan sacrifice mithan-keeping Monba morung mother-goddess Naga groups Naga Hills NEFA North-East Frontier Agency northern owner performed pigs posts priest raids ransom Rengma rites ritual sacrificed sacrificial animal Sema Sherdukpen skulls slaughter sometimes souls southern spirits Stevenson stone Stonor Tani Tani villages Thadou Tibetan tion trade traditional tribes usually valley village wild animals