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9780804725743

Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780804725743

  • ISBN10:

    0804725748

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1996-07-01
  • Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

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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.

Author Biography

Janet Hoskins is Professor of Anthropology at Monash University, Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Introduction: Headhunting as Practice and as Tropep. 1
Lyric, History, and Allegory, or the End of Headhunting Ritual in Upland Sulawesip. 50
Headtaking and the Consolidation of Political Power in the Early Brunei Statep. 90
Severed Heads That Germinate the State: History, Politics, and Headhunting in Southwest Timorp. 127
Buaya Headhunting and Its Ritual: Notes from a Headhunting Feast in Northern Luzonp. 167
Telling Violence in the Meratus Mountainsp. 184
The Heritage of Headhunting: History, Ideology, and Violence on Sumba, 1890-1990p. 216
Images of Headhuntingp. 249
Indexp. 293
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