Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia by Janet Hoskins (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherStanford University Press

ISBN-100804725756

ISBN-139780804725750

eBay Product ID (ePID)277828

Product Key Features

Number of Pages308 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHeadhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia

Publication Year1996

SubjectCareers / Job Hunting, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science, Business & Economics

AuthorJanet Hoskins

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight13.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-023128

Dewey Edition20

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal390/.0959

SynopsisThis book brings together comparative material on headhunting in a number of Southeast Asian societies, to examine the cultural contexts in which such practices occurred, and to relate them to colonial history, violence, and ritual. Over the last century, colonial conquest or 'pacification' has more or less effectively stopped the practice, but its rituals continue to be performed. Ethnographers of seven regions (the Philippine highlands, Sarawak, Brunei, and South Borneo, and the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi, Sumba, and Timor) share their experiences of living with former headhunters (including an eyewitness account of a headhunting feast), attending rituals, and collecting oral histories to understand the heritage of headhunting in context. In asking what meaning taking heads has assumed in the postcolonial era, they report on contemporary people who reenact headhunts, often with effigies or surrogates for the head itself., 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.

LC Classification NumberGN635.S58H42 1996