| Description |
1 online resource : 18 illustrations |
| Series |
Conduct and Communication |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Illustrations -- Preface -- Orthographic Notes -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Power in Performance -- 2. The History of Land, Power, and Authority in the Weyewa Highlands -- 3. Spiritual Authority in the Context of Calamity: Agents, Action, and Exchange -- 4. 'Words of the Ancestors' as a Continuum of Style -- 5. Sorting out the 'Word': Divination as Dialogic Performance -- 6. Songs, Gongs, and Oratory in Zaizo Placation Performances: The Poetic Accomplishment of Consensus -- 7. Unity and Exchange in Rites of Fulfillment: The 'Word' as Monologue -- 8. Conclusions -- Epilogue: Innovation and Convention in a Changing Weyewa Society -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Backmatter |
| Summary |
Among the Weyewa of the eastern Indonesian island of Sumba, spokesmen seek to inscribe their traditions and sacred obligations through ritual speaking performances. In a series of lively poetic dialogues, performers use a distinctive couplet style to pursue the trail of their ancestors |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Dec. 09, 2016) |
| Subject |
Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
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Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Folklore
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Folklore -- Performance -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island
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Wewewa dialect -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Folklore -- Performance
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Wewewa dialect -- Social aspects
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Wewewa (Indonesian people)
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Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies
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Indonesia -- Sumba Island
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| Genre/Form |
Folklore
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781512803341 |
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1512803340 |
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