Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling

A Storytelling Tradition from the North Sumatran Rainforest

von Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen

364 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This study of traditional literature in Pakpak-Dairi, an endangered North Sumatran language, is based on written and oral versions of stories. Discussing the views of well-known scholars of Sumatran languages, the book includes the texts of seven stories which were collected in North Sumatra by the well-known linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk (1824-1894) and are kept in Leiden University Library.The book also contains a story performed in the village of Sukarame by Sonang Sitakar, who may well have been one of the last Pakpak-Dairi storytellers. Presenting unique information on an endangered literary genre from North Sumatra.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Mündlich überlieferte Geschichte
• ISBN: 9789067183871
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2014
• Größe: 239 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Brill