Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling : A Storytelling Tradition From the North Sumatran Rainforest
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| Title: | Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling : A Storytelling Tradition From the North Sumatran Rainforest |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Dairi Pakpak dialect--Texts, Storytelling--Indonesia--Sumatera Utara, Folk literature, Dairi Pakpak--History and criticism |
| Categories: | HISTORY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
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