Mary Margaret Steedly
Biographic Data
| ID | 78356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Margaret Steedly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Steedly |
| SIGNATURE | STEEDLY M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also attempting to come to grips with the meaning of “independence.” Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also trying to come to grips with the meaning of "independence." Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was exp…
Representation and beyond; Female victims in Post-Suharto media
This study analyses representations of female victims in post-Suharto media. In so doing, it underlines the import of the fall of the New Order regime and the concurrent opening up of the media world in Indonesia. The study is based on notably influential issues that emerged among media producers, feminist activists, social scientists, policy makers, and general audiences during the period of study (1998-2004). Based on observations made in women…
On Indonesia in the Satellite Age
Modernity and the Memory Artist: The Work of Imagination in Highland Sumatra, 1947-1995
News from afar sometimes seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to one's own remembered past. This is not because of the banal redundancy of events, but because of memory's inclination to refurbish itself in contemporary designs and novel images. In 1994 I was in northern Sumatra collecting stories from Karo veterans of the Indonesian war of national independence. Every night the television news offered more horrifying pictures of ethnic violence f…
The State of Culture Theory in the Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is probably the part of the world most closely associated by anthropologists with an interpretive concept of culture. Yet do such ideas as culture areas or local cultures retain their analytical salience when our attention turns to processes of domination, displacement, and diaspora? This article considers the state of culture theory in the anthropology of Southeast Asia today, focusing on the themes of gender, marginality, violenc…
Surrogates, Slips, and Incidental Intrusions: The Tale of Raja Bakaléwat's Dog
Questions ofintentionality, mastery, disclosure, and verisimilitude have been raised by practices of ethnographic writing as well as by critiques of ethnographic fieldwork. Less attention has been paid to ethnographic and narrative mishaps, like the slip that put me in touch with the story of Raja Bakaléwat. This article offers a retelling of that story, a literal cliff-hanger, as a reflection on the relation between artistry and accident in ethn…
Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. HILDRED GEERTZ. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. + 135 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography, index, appendix (biographical notes on artists), and glossary
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: Universty Of California Press, 1995. xiv + 256 pp., IIlustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, Index
The Importance of Proper Names: Language and "national" identity in colonial Karoland
The seemingly natural association of language and local identity is one of anthropology's most durable and perhaps necessary assumptions. This article interrogates that association through an examination of the linguistic policies and vernacular education program of the Dutch Missionary Society among the Karo Bataks of colonial East Sumatra. I argue that the politically inflected "coalition of Protestantism and print-capitalism" (B. Anderson 1991…
On the Subject of "Java." John Pemberton
Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Female and Male in Borneo: Contributions and Challenges to Gender Studies. Vinson H. Sutlive JR., ed
Alternative Realities
Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Post-Colonial Karoland
Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia
Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they descri…
Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia. Jane Monnig Atkinson , Shelly Errington
Severing the bonds of love: A case study in soul loss
The State of Culture Theory in the Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is probably the part of the world most closely associated by anthropologists with an interpretive concept of culture. Yet do such ideas as culture areas or local cultures retain their analytical salience when our attention turns to processes of domination, displacement, and diaspora? This article considers the state of culture theory in the anthropology of Southeast Asia today, focusing on the themes of gender, marginality, violenc…
The Importance of Proper Names: Language and "national" identity in colonial Karoland
The seemingly natural association of language and local identity is one of anthropology's most durable and perhaps necessary assumptions. This article interrogates that association through an examination of the linguistic policies and vernacular education program of the Dutch Missionary Society among the Karo Bataks of colonial East Sumatra. I argue that the politically inflected "coalition of Protestantism and print-capitalism" (B. Anderson 1991…
Severing the bonds of love: A case study in soul loss
Modernity and the Memory Artist: The Work of Imagination in Highland Sumatra, 1947-1995
News from afar sometimes seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to one's own remembered past. This is not because of the banal redundancy of events, but because of memory's inclination to refurbish itself in contemporary designs and novel images. In 1994 I was in northern Sumatra collecting stories from Karo veterans of the Indonesian war of national independence. Every night the television news offered more horrifying pictures of ethnic violence f…
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: Universty Of California Press, 1995. xiv + 256 pp., IIlustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, Index
Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Post-Colonial Karoland
On the Subject of "Java." John Pemberton
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
Severing the bonds of love: A case study in soul loss
Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asia. Jane Monnig Atkinson , Shelly Errington
Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors. She became fascinated by the stories these women and men told of their encounters with spirits in the ritual arena and on the borders of the everyday social world. In these stories, Karo mediums conveyed their sense of historical out-of-placeness, which they descri…
Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland
Female and Male in Borneo: Contributions and Challenges to Gender Studies. Vinson H. Sutlive JR., ed
Alternative Realities
Hanging Without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Post-Colonial Karoland
Constituting the Minangkabau: Peasants, Culture, and Modernity in Colonial Indonesia
The Importance of Proper Names: Language and "national" identity in colonial Karoland
The seemingly natural association of language and local identity is one of anthropology's most durable and perhaps necessary assumptions. This article interrogates that association through an examination of the linguistic policies and vernacular education program of the Dutch Missionary Society among the Karo Bataks of colonial East Sumatra. I argue that the politically inflected "coalition of Protestantism and print-capitalism" (B. Anderson 1991…
On the Subject of "Java." John Pemberton
Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead
Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. HILDRED GEERTZ. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994. + 135 pp. Illustrated. Bibliography, index, appendix (biographical notes on artists), and glossary
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura 1922-1992
Event, Metaphor, Memory: Chauri Chaura, 1922-1992. Shahid Amin. Berkeley: Universty Of California Press, 1995. xiv + 256 pp., IIlustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, Index
The State of Culture Theory in the Anthropology of Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is probably the part of the world most closely associated by anthropologists with an interpretive concept of culture. Yet do such ideas as culture areas or local cultures retain their analytical salience when our attention turns to processes of domination, displacement, and diaspora? This article considers the state of culture theory in the anthropology of Southeast Asia today, focusing on the themes of gender, marginality, violenc…
Surrogates, Slips, and Incidental Intrusions: The Tale of Raja Bakaléwat's Dog
Questions ofintentionality, mastery, disclosure, and verisimilitude have been raised by practices of ethnographic writing as well as by critiques of ethnographic fieldwork. Less attention has been paid to ethnographic and narrative mishaps, like the slip that put me in touch with the story of Raja Bakaléwat. This article offers a retelling of that story, a literal cliff-hanger, as a reflection on the relation between artistry and accident in ethn…
Modernity and the Memory Artist: The Work of Imagination in Highland Sumatra, 1947-1995
News from afar sometimes seems to bear an uncanny resemblance to one's own remembered past. This is not because of the banal redundancy of events, but because of memory's inclination to refurbish itself in contemporary designs and novel images. In 1994 I was in northern Sumatra collecting stories from Karo veterans of the Indonesian war of national independence. Every night the television news offered more horrifying pictures of ethnic violence f…
On Indonesia in the Satellite Age
Representation and beyond; Female victims in Post-Suharto media
This study analyses representations of female victims in post-Suharto media. In so doing, it underlines the import of the fall of the New Order regime and the concurrent opening up of the media world in Indonesia. The study is based on notably influential issues that emerged among media producers, feminist activists, social scientists, policy makers, and general audiences during the period of study (1998-2004). Based on observations made in women…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also attempting to come to grips with the meaning of “independence.” Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
On August 17, 1945, Indonesia proclaimed its independence from Dutch colonial rule. Five years later, the Republic of Indonesia was recognized as a unified, sovereign state. The period in between was a time of aspiration, mobilization, and violence, in which nationalists fought to expel the Dutch while also trying to come to grips with the meaning of "independence." Rifle Reports is an ethnographic history of this extraordinary time as it was exp…
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence
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