ISBN: 9780691000459

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. Sh… More...

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 Indonesias state-proclaimed Age of Development. Based on the authors 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 Faulkners reconstructions of personal and collective memory, and current anthropological explorations of the politics of representation to open the ethnographic imagination to historical eventfulness., Gut, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], Edition Description: First Printing, Underlining Notation, Format: Paperback, Publication Date: 1993-11-01, Language: English, Publication Year: 1993-11-01, Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details: ERGODE, Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1, Dimensions (LxWxH) - Cms: 9.5X0.75X6.25, ISBN-10: 069100045X, ISBN-13: 9780691000459, SKU: SONG069100045X, Princeton University Press<

1993, ISBN: 9780691000459

Princeton University Press, 1993. First Printing, Und. Paperback. Used; Good. Edition: First Printing, Und. Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. … More...

Princeton University Press, 1993. First Printing, Und. Paperback. Used; Good. Edition: First Printing, Und. Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. Bookbarn International Inventory #3448439, Princeton University Press, 1993, 2.5<

1993, ISBN: 9780691000459

Princeton University Press, 1993-11-01. Paperback. Good. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright except for pen underlining in chapter 1, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, rem… More...

Princeton University Press, 1993-11-01. Paperback. Good. tight, uncreased spine, pages clear and bright except for pen underlining in chapter 1, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, remainder mark, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders, Princeton University Press, 1993-11-01, 2.5<