Sumatran politics and poetics : Gayo history, 1900-1989
1991, 1st edition. New Haven : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #392197
ISBN: 0300047088
Physical description: xiv, 298 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and indexes. Contents: 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. Subjects: Gayo (Indonesian people) History; Gayo (Indonesian people) Rites and ceremonies; Gayo (Indonesian people) Politics and government; Folklore Performance Indonesia Sumatra; Folklore Performance; Social conditions; Gayos (Indonesian people) History; Folklore Indonesia Sumatra; Culture Sumatra (Indonesia).
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