Hanging without a Rope
Mary Margaret Steedly
Princeton University Press, 2019
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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. I
- ISBN-13
- 9780691655321
- ISBN-10
- 0691655324
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Year
- 2019
- Publication date
- 2019-01-15
- Pages
- 328
- Dimensions
- 254x203x
- Weight
- 644