Hanging without a rope : narrative experience in Colonial and postcolonial Karoland /

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Author / Creator:Steedly, Mary Margaret, 1946-
Imprint:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1993.
Description:xvi, 306 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Subject:Karo-Batak (Indonesian people)
Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Religion.
Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Folklore.
Karo-Batak (Indonesian people)
Karo-Batak (Indonesian people) -- Religion.
Folklore.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1619338
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ISBN:0691094616 (cloth : acid-free paper) : $49.50
069100045X (pbk. : acid-free paper) : $16.95
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-296) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Some Notes on Language, Translation, and Orthography
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1. Narrative Experience
  • Chapter 2. The Karo Social World
  • Chapter 3. Markets and Money
  • Chapter 4. On Mount Sibayak
  • Chapter 5. Signs of Habitation
  • Chapter 6. Someone Else Speaking
  • Chapter 7. A Storyteller
  • Chapter 8. An Uncertain Death
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index