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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Kuipers, Joel C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Conduct and Communication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.) :; 18 illus.
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512803341; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512803341
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joel C. Kuipers.

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.