The Hammer and the Flute
Subtitle: Women, Power, and Spirit Possession
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: December 20, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801867873
Subjects: Ethnography; Spirit communication & mediumship, spiritualism; Women's studies; Religious life; Religious Anthropology; Women And Religion (General); Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; Religion; Women; Spirit possession; Spirituality - Women's; Religion / General; General; Anthropology - Cultural; Cults
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."