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- Cover
- Title
- Imprint and copyright information
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Comparative Issues
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Roman Jakobson and the comparative study of parallelism
- 3. Trajectories in the continuing study of parallelism
- 4. Semantic parallelism in Rotenese ritual language
- 5. ‘Our ancestors spoke in pairs’
- 6. On binary categories and primary symbols
- 7. Category and complement
- 8. Exploring oral formulaic language
- The Traditional Oral Canon
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- 9. Genealogies of the Sun and Moon
- 10. Manu Kama’s road, Tepa Nilu’s path
- 11. Genealogy and topogeny
- 12. Blood-red millet: An origin narrative
- 13. Admonitions of the ancestors: Giving voice to the deceased
- 14. To the aroma of the name: The celebration of a ritual of rock and tree
- The Christian Oral Canon
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- 15. The appropriation of Biblical knowledge in the creation of new narratives of origin
- 16. Adam and Eve on the island of Rote
- 17. The Rotenese sermon as a linguistic performance
- 18. Present and future research
- Bibliography
- Appendix: Petrus Malesi’s Recitation Of ‘The Coming Of Rice’
