Mary Steedly is John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Harvard University. Her first book, Hanging without a Rope: Narrative Experience in Colonial and Postcolonial Karoland, is a study of spirit mediumship in the Karo highlands of North Sumatra, Indonesia. She is presently working on a history of Karo participation in the Indonesian Revolution of 1945-50.

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