Prof. Anungla Aier is a social anthropologist who obtained her MA in 1984 and PhD in 1995 from North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong. She taught anthropology at Kohima Science College from 1986 and later became principal of the same college. She has been actively engaged in research on different Naga communities in the fields of culture and folklore studies and gender studies, and served as the first director of the Women Studies Centre of Nagaland University and Director of the Department of Higher Education of the Government of Nagaland. Her numerous publications include the two books Pottery Tradition Among the Chakhesang & Pochury Tribes (2008) and Studies on Naga Oral Tradition: Memories and Telling of Origin Myth and Migration (2018). In recognition of her research in the field of anthropology, she received the Governor Gold Medal from the Government of Nagaland and the Gurudev Kalicharan Bhrama National Award from the Government of Assam.

Dr. Christian Poske is an ethnomusicologist whose research focuses on the performing arts of eastern and northeastern India and Bangladesh, community engagement with archival sound recordings, and oral history. He completed his BA and MA at Rabindra Bharati University in Kolkata with a scholarship by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations and his PhD at SOAS University of London and the British Library Sound Archive with a doctoral scholarship by the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK. In London, he worked as an Audio Project Cataloguer and Bengali Cataloguer at the British Library. After his PhD, he conducted three postdoctoral research projects in India and the UK with the support of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, and the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research (USA). Based in Kolkata, he is now associated as a research fellow with the Highland Institute in Kohima, where he studies the performing arts of the wider Nagaland region.