Why do they (still) sing stories? Singing narratives in Tanjung Bunga (eastern Flores, Lamaholot, Indonesia)

Bibliographic Data

ID6174266
AuthorsDana Rappoport (0000-0002-6584-6918, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume17
Issue2
Pages163-163
Publication date2016-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1411-2272 • E-ISSN: 2407-6899
PublisherWacana Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17510/wacana.v17i2.439
OpenAlexW2513773672
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited11

In eastern Flores, on the Tanjung Bunga peninsula (among Western Lamaholot speakers), several times a year, ritual narratives (opak) are performed on a square dancing area, where all the clans of the same ceremonial land meet. Three types of narrative are sung, according to three kinds of rituals. The article explains the context, content and performance details of these stories, performed all night long. Why do the various clans continue to sing all these narrative? What values do these long poems have for people who sing them? Until now, studies on this subject have been remarkably few, and not even a partial transcription or translation of these narratives is available. This article offers a preliminary insight into these sung narratives, to show how vital they still are in eastern Flores

Archaeology · Art · Clan · Context (archaeology · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Peninsula · Poetry · Singing · Sociology · Subject (documents · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Computer Science · Gender Studies · History

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