Sumatran Politics and Poetics: Gayo History, 1900-1989

by John R. Bowen and Professor John R. Bowen

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300047088
• ISBN13: 9780300047080
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.6"