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1 online resource (461 pages) |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde |
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Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
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| Contents |
THE STRANGER-KINGS OF SIKKA; THE STRANGER-KINGSOF SIKKA; Copyright; Contents; List of figures, tables, and abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Preface; PART 1 Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka; The chronicles of the Rajadom of Sikka Introduction E. Douglas Lewis; CHAPTER I The people of Sikka and the Boer and Kondi manuscripts; The Ata Sikka; The provenance and 'discovery' of the Kondi and Boer manuscripts; The authors: Mo'ang D.D.P. Kondi and Mo'ang A. Boer Pareira; Biographical sketches of D.D.P. Kondi and A. Boer Pareira; Dominicus Dionitius Pareira Kondi; Alexius Boer Pareira |
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Description of the manuscriptsDates of composition; The languages of the manuscripts; Notes on the translation of the texts; Ritual language and its translation; The recension of the manuscripts; CHAPTER II Structure and themes of the Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka; Structure; A note on the pairing of ancestral names and genealogical succession; A note on social groups in Sikka; Remarks on the narrative; CHAPTER III Summary notes and outline of the Hikayat; The first 'dewasa'; The autochthons and the newcomers; Complexities and confusions in the texts of the first 'dewasa'; Mo'ang Bata Jawa |
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Mo'ang Baga Ngang and the usurpation of Old HokorDon Alésu da Silva, Augustinyu da Gama and Raja Worilla; The structure of the government of the early rajadom and its contemporary significance; Ratu Dona Agnes Ines da Silva; The second 'dewasa'; Raja Mbako I Kikir Hiwa and Raja Thomas Mbo I; The third 'dewasa'; The modern rajas; CHAPTER IV The sovereignty of Sikka's stranger-kings; The motif of the stranger-king; The problem of sovereignty; Diarchy in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and Sikka; The problem of sovereignty in Sikka |
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CHAPTER V Marriage, sovereignty, and the pathsof ivory in SikkaIvory and marriage in Sikka; Marriage without bridewealth; Marriage in the Hikayat, I; The strangeness of the stranger; Marriage in the Hikayat, II; Hierarchized value; CHAPTER VI Stranger-kings and myths of xenarchy inthe eastern Lesser Sunda Islands; The occurrence of stranger-king myths in Sumba and central and western Flores; Sumba; Manggarai; Ngada, Nage, and Keo; Ende and Lio; Stranger-king myths in Larantuka, the Lamaholot archipelago and Timor; Larantuka (East Flores); Solor, Adonara, and Lembata |
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Timor, Roti, Savu and Raijua Mambai; Wehali (West Timor); Atoni; Roti; Savu and Raijua; The occurrence of stranger-king myths in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands:summary and conclusion; When did the stranger-kings of Sikka arrive on Flores and who were they?; PART 2 Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka; The chronicles of the Rajadom of Sikka An integrated text D.D.P. Kondi and A. Boer Pareira; Preface by D.D.P. Kondi; CHAPTER VII The first period The Autochthons and newcomers; The Autochthons; The newcomers; The verse of Raé Raja and Rubang Sina; The discovery of the Autochthons |
| Summary |
The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an Indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the first contemporary ethnography of the Ata Sikka of Flores |
| Notes |
The newcomers build a house and open gardens |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-426) and index |
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English; some text in Sikka |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Kondi, Dominicus Dionitius Pareira, 1886-1962.
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Pareira, Alexius BoEr, 1888-1980.
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Kondi, Dominicus Dionitius Pareira, 1886-1962 fast |
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Pareira, Alexius BoEr, 1888-1980 fast |
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Tribes -- Indonesia
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Tribes
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Indonesia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065741
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Sikka (Indonesia) -- History
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Indonesia
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004253773 |
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9004253777 |
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1299784127 |
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9781299784123 |
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