Author: Siegel, James
Title: Shadow and Sound. The Historical Thought of a Sumatran People
Description: Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1979). orig.cloth. 22x14cm, x, 284 pp. Textual table;facsimile seal. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Introduction: Lists & Seals; The Governor's Predecessors;' Hikajat Potjoet Moehamat': The Epic; 'Hikajat Potjoet Moehamat': The Writing in the Wall; "Fathers" and "Sons"; The Figure of Potjoet Moehamat; The House, the Letter, and the Prince; Prosody,Writing, and Recitation. ' Si Meuseukin's Wedding': The Pleasure in Writing; 'Hikajat Prang Sabil': The Literature of the Holy War; The Atjehnese War; Paradise in Popular Literature; The Injunction of the Holy War; The Signification of Paradise; Style and Signification; The Politics of Displacement; Epilogue: History in Atjeh Today.

Keywords: Atjehnese literature, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia, Atjeh, Ethnography, Historiography, Aceh, South East Asia, Anthropology