TY  - BOOK
AU  - J. Fox, James
AB  - This is a study in oral poetic composition. It examines how oral poets compose their recitations. Specifically, it is a study of the recitations of 17 separate master poets from the Island of Rote recorded over a period of 50 years. Each of these poets offers his version of what is culturally considered to be the ‘same’ ritual chant. These compositions are examined in detail and their oral formulae are carefully compared to one another. Professor James J. Fox is an anthropologist who carried out his doctoral field research on the Island of Rote in eastern Indonesia in 1965–66. In 1965, he began recording the oral traditions of the island and developed a close association with numerous oral poets on the island. After many subsequent visits, in 2006, he began a nine-year project that brought groups of oral poets to Bali for week-long recording sessions. Recitations gathered over a period of 50 years are the basis for this book.
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_610747
ID  - OAPEN ID: 610747
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 953379385
KW  - eastern indonesia
KW  - oral poetry
KW  - anthropology
KW  - Delhi University Students' Union
KW  - Dengka language
KW  - Dialect
KW  - Meno
KW  - Rice
KW  - Ringgou language
KW  - Sacred language
KW  - Termanu language
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/950f38e4-8265-4f9d-b64b-37834e000d67/610747.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32436
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781760460051
TI  - Master poets, ritual masters: The art of oral composition among the Rotenese of Eastern Indonesianull
ER  - 
