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Sumatran politics and poetics : Gayo history, 1900-1989 /
In this book, an anthropologist analyzes political and cultural change among the Gayo, a Muslim people numbering about 200,000 who live in the highlands of northern Sumatra. John R. Bowen, who has lived among the Gayo shows how their successive absorption into both colonial and post-colonial states...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- PART 1. GAYO HISTORY AND ITS REPRESENTATIONS: 2. Gayo society and culture ; 3. Political structure and historical narratives in 1900 ; 4. The creation of colonial hierarchies ; 5. Competing transcendencies: Islam and the Indonesian nation-state ; 6. Politics and culture in the new order
- PART 2. POETICS AND ITS HISTORY: 7. Authoritative maxims and ritual speaking ; 8. Poetry and contest, 1900-1945 ; 9. The poetic mediation of political change, 1945-1989 ; 10. Narrative strategies in the history of Linge ; 11. Islamic reformulations of the past ; 12. Conclusions
- Appendix 1. Analytical glossary of Gayo terms
- Appendix 2. Gayo population data.