Power in Performance : : The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech / / 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.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1990 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Conduct and Communication
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (202 p.) :; 18 illus. |
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Table of 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