Flows of Words and Flows of Blessing: The Poetics of Invocatory Speech among the Sa’dan Toraja  

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Waterson, Roxana

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bijdragen Tot de Taal Land En Volkenkunde vol. 168 no. 04 (2012), page 391-419.
Topik: Religion; Cognition; Communication; Poetry; Cosmology; Blessing; Textile Trade; Sa’dan Toraja; Indonesia
Fulltext: B10 v168 n4 p391,win.pdf (979.46KB)

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: B10 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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The human propensity to address the unseen is a profound anthropological and linguistic puzzle. Ethnographers of ‘prayer’ in Southeast Asia have proposed that invocations are opposed as a form of utterance to other genres such as narration. This paper challenges that assumption with the analysis of some Toraja examples having a more declarative and instrumental quality. It also expands on Schefold’s observations (2001) about ‘flows of blessing’ as a characteristically Austronesian concept. Above all, the intensely poetic qualities of Toraja invocations suggest the possibility of a deeper link between prayer and poetry, as linguistic genres intended to move the hearer.

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