The stranger-kings of Sikka : with an integrated edition of two manuscripts on the origin and history of the rajadom of Sikka / / by Dominicus Dionitius Pareira Kondi and Alexius BoEr Pareira.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 257
• Author: Kondi, Dominicus Dionitius Pareira, 1886-1962.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pareira, Alexius BoEr, 1888-1980.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 257.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (461 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004253777
• ISSN: 1572-1892
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Dominicus Dionitius Pareira Kondi and Alexius BoEr Pareira.

The Stranger-Kings of Sikka is the first monographic study of an origin myth and history of an indigenous eastern Indonesian state and the first contemporary ethnography of the Ata Sikka of Flores. The book will be of interest to anthropologists, ethnologists of Austronesia, historians and political scientists whose interests include Southeast Asia. During the 1920's, in the regency of Sikka on the island of Flores, D.D. Pareira Kondi and A. Boer Pareira, two notable men among the first literate Sikkanese, began writing about the history and culture of their people. Among their many surviving manuscripts are two long works on the origin of the rajas who ruled Sikka until the end of the rajadom in the 1950's. The author of this book uncovered the manuscripts in 1994 and found among them versions of the myth of origin of the Sikkanese rajas, an epic tale of immigrant-kings that was lost to living memory and as oral tradition by the 1970's. Drawing on Boer’s and Kondi's texts and his own field research in the regency of Sikka, Lewis presents an abridged English translation of the origin myth and constructs a history of the Sikkanese rajas and the organization of the society they ruled.