Sumatran Politics and Poetics. Gayo History, 1900-1989.
New Haven. Yale Uni. Press. 1991. Maps, black and white illustrations, xiv + 298pp, appendix, bibliography, indeces, an excellent hardback copy in dustjacket. The twentieth century history of the Gayo people, a Muslim people numbering about 200,000, who live in the highlands of northern Sumatra. The effects of the centralisation..... More