Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
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Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
By (Author) Mary Margaret Steedly
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
15th January 2019
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples
Human biology
306.0899922
Physical Properties
Hardback
328
Width 203mm, Height 254mm
Description
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. I
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"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"
