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.

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...

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Superior document:Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 257
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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Chapter I: The people of Sikka and the Boer and Kondi manuscripts
  • Chapter II: Structure and themes of the Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka
  • Chapter III: Summary notes and outline of the Hikayat
  • Chapter IV: The sovereignty of Sikka’s stranger-kings
  • Chapter V: Marriage, sovereignty, and the paths of ivory in Sikka
  • Chapter VI: Stranger-kings and myths of xenarchy in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands
  • Chapter VII: The first period: The autochthons and newcomers
  • Chapter VIII: The life of Mo’ang Bata Jawa
  • Chapter IX: The life of Mo’ang Baga Ngang
  • Chapter X: Don Alésu’s journeys to Malacca and through Flores
  • Chapter XI: The reigns of Ratu Dona Maria, Mo’ang Samao da Silva, and Ratu Dona Agnes Ines da Silva
  • Chapter XII: The second period: The middle rajas: Raja Mbako I Kikir Hiwa, Raja Prispin da Cunha, Raja Thomas Mo’ang Bo I da Silva, and Ornay da Costa
  • Chapter XIII: The third period: The rajadom in the early twentieth century
  • Epilogue
  • Appendices
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index.