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1 online resource (xvi, 306 pages) : illustrations |
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Princeton studies in culture/power/history |
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Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for Hanging without a rope : narrative experience in Colonial and postcolonial Karoland / Mary Margaret Steedly. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- List of Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Some Notes on Language, Translation, and Orthography xv -- Prologue 3 -- CHAPTER ONE. Narrative Experience 12 -- CHAPTER TWO. The Karo Social World 44 -- CHAPTER THREE. Markets and Money 77 -- CHAPTER FOUR On Mount Sibayak 119 -- CHAPTER FIVE. Signs of Habitation 144 -- CHAPTER SIX. Someone Else Speaking 174 -- CHAPTER SEVEN. A Storyteller 203 -- CHAPTER EIGHT. An Uncertain Death 224 -- Notes 241 -- Glossary 269 -- Bibliography 275 -- Index 297 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) Religion, Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) Folklore |
| Summary |
Annotation When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they described as hanging without a rope, in Indonesia's state-proclaimed Age of Development. Based on the author's three years of fieldwork in urban and rural Karoland, this engaging and sympathetic account focuses on issues of experience, memory, and narrative plausibility. Steedly approaches mediums' stories not simply as reservoirs of information about what happened at a particular moment, but as interested efforts to map a pathway across the shifting landscape of historical memory. Over the past century Karoland has been the scene of colonial conquest, Christian conversion, commercial agricultural development, military occupation, revolution, migration, and modernization. Stories of spirit encounters, Steedly argues, provide an alternative, unofficial perspective on the historical transformation of the Karo social world. In addition to her rich ethnographic material, she draws on feminist theories of subjectivity, William Faulkner's reconstructions of personal and collective memory, and current anthropological explorations of the politics of representation to open the ethnographic imagination to historical eventfulness |
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Ethnic groups |
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Sumatra (Indonesia) |
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Ethnic groups |
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Sumatra (Indonesia) |
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Ethnic groups |
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Sumatra (Indonesia) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-296) and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Karo-Batak (Indonesian people)
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Religion
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Folklore
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people)
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Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Religion.
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Erzählforschung
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Politische Soziologie
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Karo Bataks (volk)
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Geesten.
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Volkscultuur.
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Karo Batak
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0691094616 |
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9780691094618 |
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069100045X |
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9780691000459 |
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