Publikationen

Dr. Vibha Joshi Parkin

Monographs

2012
A Matter of Belief: Christian Conversion and Healing in North-East India, Berghahn, Oxford & New York.

2008
Co-edited (with Richard Kunz) the book Naga: A Forgotten Mountain Region Rediscovered: Christoph Merian Verlag and Museum der Kulteren Basel. Authored essays: ‘The Naga: an Introduction’ (pp 37-47), ‘Angami Village Gates kharu’ (pp 61-63), ‘Women in Naga Society’(pp 89-93), ‘Feasts and Festivals’ (pp 148-153) . Book was published to accompany the exhibition of same title that I was guest curated with Richard Kunz at the Museum of Culture, Basel.

2004
The Land of the Nagas. Mapin Publishing Pvt Ltd. Ahmedabad and Grantha Corporation New York. 128 pp with photographs. (co-author photographer Aditya Arya).

Articles

2013
‘Contemporary Christianity and transnational networks : Naga of northeast India’ in Mission Entangled edited by R. Haebermaus and R. Hoelzl. Boelhau Publishing House, Germany. Proceedings of ‘Missions and Knowledge’ conference, Department of History, Goettingen University.

2013
Micro politics of borders: the issue of Greater Nagaland (or Nagalim)’ in Borderlands in South Asia: Beyond State and Nation,edited by David Gellner: Duke University Press.

2010
‘Nagaland and Nagas of Manipur’. In Encyclopaedia of world dress and fashion, volume South Asia and Southeast Asia, (ed) J. Dhamija. Oxford: Berg Publishers. 2010: pp 205-211.

2008
‘Pluralistic Beliefs: Christianity and Healing among the Angami Nagas’ in Naga Identities, edited by Michael Oppitz et. al. Gent: Snoeck Publisher. pp. 393-402.

2007
‘Redefining Status and Identity: The case of Naga textiles’: in J. Purunanda (ed.) Status, Myth and Supernatural: Unravelling the secrets of Southeast Asian Textiles. The James H.W. Thompson Foundation Symposium Papers. Bangkok: River Books, 2007: pp 108-121.

2007
Special issue of the peer reviewed journal South Asia (Francis & Taylor), Northeast and Beyond: Culture and Change, with contributions by 10 authors, co-edited with Erik de Maaker, Leiden University. Chapters authored: ‘Introduction’ (pp 381-390; co-authored with de Maaker). ‘The Birth of Christian Enthusiasm among the Angami of Nagaland’ (pp 541-557)

2007
The Birth of Christian Enthusiasm among the Angami of Nagaland’. In peer reviewed South Asia (Francis & Taylor), December issue, pp 541-557.

2004
‘Human and Spiritual Agency in Angami Healing Part I & Part II’. In peer reviewed Anthropology and Medicine, vol. 11, 3, December, pp 269-291.

2003
‘Naga textiles’ in Textiles from Burma, eds. E. Dell and S. Dudley. London: Philiph Wilson Publishers.2003.pp 83-86.

2003
‘Design, meaning and identity in Naga textiles: continuity and change’ in Textiles from Burma, eds. E. Dell and S. Dudley. London: Philiph Wilson Publishers, London. 2003. pp 115-124.

Movies, Blogs and Podcasts

2011
Blog on mmg.mpg.de on Fieldwork in Nagaland titled: ‘An anthropologist among believers’.

2011
Podcast: About the Naga objects in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and effects of cultural and religious change.

1993-94
Film: Produced and directed a 35 minutes film (High-Band U-matic) – The Sahariya of Madhya Pradesh on a central Indian community for the Anthropological Survey of India, 1993-94.