To speak in pairs : essays on the ritual languages of eastern Indonesia / editor, James J. Fox
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1988. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425289
ISBN: 0521343321
Physical description; xi, 338 pages : illustrations. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-333) and index. Contents; 1. Etiquette in Kodi spirit communication : the mouths told to speak / Janet Alison Hoskins -- 2. Method in the metaphor : the ritual language of Wanukaka / David Mitchell -- 3. Li'i marapu : speech and ritual among the Wewewa of west Sumba / Brigitte Renard-Clamagirand -- 4. The pattern of prayer in Weyewa / Joel C. Kuipers -- 5. Fashioned speech, full communication : aspects of eastern Sumbanese ritual language / Gregory Forth -- 6. Manu Kama's road, Tepa Nilus path : theme, narrative, and formula in Rotinese ritual language / James J. Fox -- 7. The case of the purloined statues : the power of words among the Lionese / Eriko Aoki -- 8. The journey of the bridegroom : idioms of marriage among the Endenese / Satoshi Nakagawa -- 9. A quest for the source : the ontogenesis of a creation myth of the Ata Tana Ai / E.D. Lewis -- 10. The tree of desire : a Toraja ritual poem / Charles Zerner and Toby Alice Volkman. Subjects; Language and languages Religious aspects. Ritual. Indonesian language. Religion.
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