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Record Nr.

UNINA9910984571903321

Autore

Fox James J.

Titolo

Ritual Voices of Revelation : The Origin Narratives of the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesia

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Canberra : , : ANU Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9781760466589

1760466581

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (358 pages)

Disciplina

400

Soggetti

Rote (Indonesian people) - Ethnic identity

Language and languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This is a study of a collection of oral compositions of the Rotenese of eastern Indonesia. Recited in semantic parallelism, these compositions require a strict pairing of all words to produce correspondingly ordered verses.