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 has led them to revise their ritual speaking, sung poetry, and historical narrative.
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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 has led them to revise their ritual speaking, sung poetry, and historical narrative.
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Textual photos & maps. Minor rubbing. VG., dustwrapper. 24x16cm, xiv, 298 pp. Contents: Gayo History & Its Representaitons; Gayo Society & Culture; Political Structure & Historical Narratives in 1900; The Creation of Colonial Hierarchies; Competing Transcendencies: Islam & the Indonesian Nation-State: Politics & Culture in the New Order; Poetics & Its History: Authoritative Maxims & Ritual Speaking; Poetry & Contest: 1900-1945; The Poetic Mediation of Political Change, 1945-1989; Narrative Strategies in the History of Lingė; Islamic Reformulation of the Past; Conclusions; Appendix: Analytical Glossary of Gayo Terms; Gayo Population Data.
