Danau Toba Unwoven
We entered the small unassuming shop through a low doorway. Housed in a wooden open-air cabin on a grassy hill we had stumbled upon a veritable museum of Batak art, […]
Category Archives: Ethnography
The Headman’s New Chainsaw
A noisy, sputtering gas generator keeps the village’s satellite TV blaring until midnight, teenagers wearing “I don’t give a F*#k” t-shirts chain smoke cigarettes, and the purr of chainsaws are […]
Shamanism in the Land Where the Rainbow Gets its Colors
It was a cool sunny morning when we made our way up the hills surrounding Lago de Atitlan towards the village of San Pablo where we were to meet the […]
