Sumatran politics and poetics : Gayo history, 1900-1989 /

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...

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Author / Creator: Bowen, John R. 1951-
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.
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