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Showing signs of violence: the cultural politics of a twentieth-century headhunting ritual

Kenneth M. George c1996 © University of California Press
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ISBN(s)
  • 9780520203617 (paper)
  • 9780520200418 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Asian: South and Southeast
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  • Frontmatter
  • MAPS AND FIGURES (page ix)
  • PREFACE (page xi)
  • 1 Relics from Alien Parts: An Introduction (page 1)
  • 2 The Mappurondo Enclave at Bambang (page 21)
  • 3 Defaced Images from the Past: On the Disfigured Histories and Disfiguring Violence of Pangngae (page 59)
  • 4 Violence, Solace, Vows, Noise, and Song: Ritual Headhunting and the Community in Mourning (page 101)
  • 5 Envy, Adornment, and Words That Make the Floor Shake: Pangngae and the Rhetoric of Manhood (page 134)
  • 6 From Violence to Memory: Singing about Singing as a Headhunt Ends in Song (page 186)
  • 7 The Songs of the ToSalu and the ToIssilita': The Horizons of Textuality and Interpretation, 1983-85 (page 201)
  • 8 The Spectacle of Dancing Men: Pangngae in the Culture of Indonesian Modernity (page 238)
  • 9 Epilogue: The Headwaters, 1994 (page 264)
  • APPENDIX I: LINGUISTIC AND ORTHOGRAPHIC NOTES (page 273)
  • APPENDIX II: TABLES (page 279)
  • APPENDIX III: MUSIC FIGURES (page 287)
  • NOTES (page 293)
  • REFERENCES CITED (page 309)
  • INDEX (page 327)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AE 241. (Feb. 1997): 257-258 http://www.jstor.org/stable/646625
JAS 56.3 (Aug. 1997): 844-847 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2659670
AANTH 99.1 (Mar. 1997): 160-162 http://www.jstor.org/stable/682148
JRAI 2.4 (Dec. 1996): 754 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3034340
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