Author: Bowen, John R.
Title: Sumatran Politics and Poetics: Gayo History, 1900 -1989
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, (1991). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv, 298 pp. Textual photos & maps.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Gayo History & Its Representaitons; Gayo Society & Culture; Political Structure & Historical Narratives in 1900; The Creation of Colonial Hierarchies; Competing Transcendencies: Islam & the Indonesian Nation-State: Politics & Culture in the New Order; Poetics & Its History: Authoritative Maxims & Ritual Speaking; Poetry & Contest: 1900-1945; The Poetic Mediation of Political Change, 1945-1989; Narrative Strategies in the History of Lingë; Islamic Reformulation of the Past; Conclusions; Appendix: Analytical Glossary of Gayo Terms; Gayo Population Data.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Indonesia Politics, Gayo Ethnography, Ethnohistory Gayos, Sumatra Literature, Colonial History, Ethnic Folklore, Literary Southeast, Performance Ritual