RECONSTRUCTION IN THE ASSAM HILLS

Abstract

THE process of, reconstruction must vary in different localities, but in most cases the anthropologist can be real assistance. In his presidential address for 1945 to the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Prof. J. H. Hitton discussed some problems of reconstruction as they will appear in the Assam Hills. Any hill-tribe tends to lead a more or less segregated life, and until this century the Nagas had had only sporadic communication with the outside world. The First World War was responsible for a certain amount of contact, but it was not until the recent campaign in their country that any large-scale opening-up occurred. Now there are good roads, and communication by air is also established.