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To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of eastern Indonesia

By James J. Fox

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1988
ISBN
9780511551369, 0521343321, 0511551363, 9780521343329
LCC
PL5071
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2217630 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture
Pages
350\350
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

These original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the strict ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introduction puts the topic in historical perspective and what was once viewed as a composition form unique to ancient Hebrew is now seen as a feature common to literatures around the world. Here is the first book to compare in detail living traditions of parallel composition. Yet, despite the diversity of languages discussed by the contributors, their materials are drawn from a single cultural area still unknown to most specialists: Eastern Indonesia. All the essays contain original texts with translations and with detailed commentary on both content and context.

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