Hanging without a Rope : : Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland / / Mary Margaret Steedly.
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...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1993 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 10 halftones 1 map |
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