Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia by Janet Hoskins
A Stanford University Press classic.
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia
Summary
This book brings together material on headhunting from several Southeast Asia societies, examines its cultural contexts, and relates them to colonial history, violence, and ritual.
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia Summary
Table of Contents
Contributors; 1. Introduction: headhunting as practice and trope Janet Hoskins; 2. Lyric, history, and allegory, or the end of headhunting ritual in upland Sulawesi Kenneth M. George; 3. Headtaking and the consolidation of political power in the early Brunei state Allen R. Maxwell; 4. Severed heads that germinate the state: history, politics, and headhunting in Southwest Timor Andrew McWilliam; 5. Buaya headhunting and its ritual: notes from a headhunting feast in Northern Luzon Jules De Raedt; 6. Telling violence in the Meratus mountains Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing; 7. The heritage of headhunting: history, ideology and violence on Sumba, 1890-1990 Janet Hoskins; 8. Images of headhunting Peter Metcalf; Index.
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GOR009036831
9780804725750
0804725756
Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia by Janet Hoskins
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Stanford University Press
1996-07-01
308
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