TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kuipers,Joel C.
TI  - Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech 
T2  - Conduct and Communication
SN  - 9780812282450
AV  - DS632.W48 
U1  - 306.0899922 20
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Performance
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - Sumba Island
KW  - Wewewa (Indonesian people)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Wewewa dialect
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512803341
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