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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, James J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rote (Indonesian people)--Ethnic identity.

Rote (Indonesian people).

Language and languages.

Roti Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Roti Island (Indonesia).

Genre:

Folk literature

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra : ANU Press, 2024.

Language Note:

Narratives in Roti with parallel English translation; commentary in English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

1. Introduction

2. The metaphoric creation of a complementary world

3. Background and exegesis of the origin narratives of Termanu

4. The origin narratives of Termanu

Recitation 1. The origin of fire, of cooking and of the implements for living

Recitation 2. The origin of fire, of cooking and of the implements for living

Recitation 3. The origin of cooking and of the marriage with the Sea

Recitation 4. The origin of fire, of cooking and of the implements for living

Recitation 5. The origin of fire, of cooking and of the implements for living, and the sadness of the axe and adze

Recitation 6. The origin of red millet

Recitation 7. The origin and spread of rice and millet

Recitation 8. The origin of weaving and dyeing and the spread of cloth patterns

Recitation 9. The origin of the nautilus shell for indigo dye and the baler shell for resting the spindle

5. Background and exegesis on the origin narratives of Thie

6. The origin narratives of Thie

Recitation 2. The origin of the house and its roofing

Recitation 3. The origin of the first ancestral house, at Do Lasi and Ledo Mbena

Recitation 4. The war between the Heavens and the Sea and its consequences

Recitation 5. The origin of rice and millet and of their celebration

Recitation 6. The origin of the grains and seeds and of their celebration

Recitation 7. The origin of the celebration at Nasi Dano

7. Christian narratives of origin

Genesis: Dae Ina Dadadi

Dae Ina a Dadadi Masosana

Appendix I: A portrait gallery of poets

Appendix II: The idea of topogeny and its use in the origin narratives of the Rotenese

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781760466589

1760466581

OCLC:

1452124638