The Hammer and the Flute
Subtitle: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: March 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801881886
Subjects: Anthropology; Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Women's studies; Religion - Contemporary Issues; Gender Studies; Religion; Sexuality & Gender Studies; Sociology of Religion; Religion / General; General
First sentence: In the 1970s, hundreds of incidents were recorded in the free-trade zones of Malaysia in which women who worked in the technologically sophisticated manufacturing plants were possessed by hantu, "spirits, often harmful to human beings, associated with a place, animal, or deceased person."