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Article: Telling violence in the Meratus mountains. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
- Article from:
- Borneo Research Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. 1996, Telling violence in the Meratus mountains, IN: Janet Hoskins, ed., Headhunting and the social imagination in Southeast Asia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 184-215.
The author explores the politics of violence and minority status at local and regional levels. She examines Meratus talk about violence, starting with stories of soldiers and revolutionaries. Next, she turns to nineteenth-century Kalimantan headhunting to shed light on the context in which Meratus stories of power and fear developed. Without records or even tales of particular raids in southeast Kalimantan, the author relies on general descriptions of ...