"A wonderful book, theoretically challenging, ethnographically rich, and exquisitely written."--Toby Alice Volkman, Ford Foundation "Fascinating and compelling. . . . Examines with great subtlety the cultural construction of violence, and in putting forward a notion of 'political affect' moves beyond prevailing ideas of emotion in ways that have great significance for anthropology and other fields as well."--Benjamin Orlove, University of California, Davis
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"A wonderful book, theoretically challenging, ethnographically rich, and exquisitely written."--Toby Alice Volkman, Ford Foundation "Fascinating and compelling. . . . Examines with great subtlety the cultural construction of violence, and in putting forward a notion of 'political affect' moves beyond prevailing ideas of emotion in ways that have great significance for anthropology and other fields as well."--Benjamin Orlove, University of California, Davis
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As New. Book Octavo, softcover, as new in black and beige decorative wraps. 339 pp. including index. deals with the ceremonies of pangngae, a mock headhunt that lingers stubbornly at the center of political life in a marginal upland community in Sulawesi, Indonesia. No killing takes place in this ritual-no actual heads are taken-but its rhetoric of violence is unmistakable and real.
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Good. Size: 8x6x1; Good paperback copy, from a personal collection (NOT ex-library). Spine is uncreased, binding tight and sturdy. Pencil markings made by a professor of anthropology from the University of Minnesota. Shelfwear is minor. A case study of pangngae in Indonesia. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
