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Power in Performance : The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech / Joel C. Kuipers.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Conduct and CommunicationPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©1990Edition: Reprint 2016Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) : 18 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812282450
  • 9781512803341
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.0899922 20
LOC classification:
  • DS632.W48
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  • online - DeGruyter
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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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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