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- Steedly, Mary Margaret
- Book Title
- Hanging without a Rope
- ISBN
- 9780691000459
- Subject Area
- Religion, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Hanging Without a Rope : Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Subject
- Folklore & Mythology, Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
- Series
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Width
- 7.7 in
- Item Weight
- 17 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 332 Pages
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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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Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
069100045x
ISBN-13
9780691000459
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038668385
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Hanging Without a Rope : Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Folklore & Mythology, Eastern, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, Social Science
Number of Pages
332 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7.7 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
93-003779
Series Volume Number
5278
Lc Classification Number
Ds632.K3s74 1993
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"[This book] examines the 'politics of representation' in Karoland from all sides, especially the voices of Batak individuals either agonistically or stoically rethinking the sometimes tragic past. Mary Steedly successfully conveys part of the historical and cultural complexity." --James A. Boon, Princeton University, Co-Winner of the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association, Co-Winner of the 1994 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, Society for Humanistic Anthropology and American Anthropological Association Co-Winner of the Chicago Folklore Prize
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1994
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College Audience
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