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Hanging without a Rope - Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland (Hardcover)
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Hanging without a Rope - Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to
study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus
who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became
fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their
encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of
the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed
their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they described as
"hanging without a rope," in Indonesia's state-proclaimed Age of
Development. Based on the author's three years of fieldwork in
urban and rural Karoland, this engaging and sympathetic account
focuses on issues of experience, memory, and narrative
plausibility. Steedly approaches mediums' stories not simply as
reservoirs of information about "what happened" at a particular
moment, but as interested efforts to map a pathway across the
shifting landscape of historical memory. Over the past century
Karoland has been the scene of colonial conquest, Christian
conversion, commercial agricultural development, military
occupation, reolution, migration, and modernization. Storeis of
spirit encounters, Steedly argues, provide an alternative,
"unofficial" perspective on the historical transformation of the
Karo social world. In addition to her rich ethnographic material,
she draws on feminist theories of subjectivity, William Faulkner's
reconstructions of personal and collective memory, and current
anthropological explorations of the politics of representation to
open the ethnographic imagination to historical eventfulness. Mary
Margaret Steedly is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Harvard
University. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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