Power in performance : the creation of textual authority in Weyewa ritual speech /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Kuipers, Joel Corneal
Imprint:	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1990.
Description:	xxvi, 198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	University of Pennsylvania Press conduct and communication series
Subject:	Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies. Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Folklore. Folklore -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island -- Performance. Wewewa dialect -- Social aspects -- Indonesia -- Sumba Island. Wewewa dialect -- Texts. Folklore -- Performance. Wewewa dialect. Wewewa dialect -- Social aspects. Wewewa (Indonesian people) Wewewa (Indonesian people) -- Rites and ceremonies. Indonesia -- Sumba Island. Folklore. Texts.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1291946

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ISBN:	0812282450 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-193) and index.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Notes
Orthographic Notes
Notes
Acknowledgments
1. Power in Performance
Notes
2. The History of Land, Power, and Authority in the Weyewa Highlands
Notes
3. Spiritual Authority in the Context of Calamity: Agents, Action, and Exchange
Notes
4. 'Words of the Ancestors' as a Continuum of Style
Conclusions
Notes
5. Sorting Out the 'Word': Divination as Dialogic Performance
Notes
6. Songs, Gongs and Oratory in Zaizo Placation Performances: The Poetic Accomplishment of Consensus
Notes
7. Unity and Exchange in Rites of Fulfillment: The 'Word' as Monologue
Notes
8. Conclusions
Epilogue: Innovation and Convention in a Changing Weyewa Society
Notes
References
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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