“Paying in Words, Buying the Harvest.” Reflection on Forms of Exchange in Eastern Indonesia (eastern Flores, West Lamaholot, Indonesia)
In 2017, during fieldwork dedicated to the collection of harvest songs on the eastern tip of Flores Island in Indonesia, someone explained to me that with his poetic oration, he is “buying the harvest” (hopé éhin bata wa'in). From whom? “From them,” he says. The following week, during a reconc...
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Moussons
2022
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| オンライン･アクセス: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 要約: | In 2017, during fieldwork dedicated to the collection of harvest songs on the eastern tip of Flores Island in Indonesia, someone explained to me that with his poetic oration, he is “buying the harvest” (hopé éhin bata wa'in). From whom? “From them,” he says. The following week, during a reconciliation ritual, another tells me that by performing poems, “they are paying with words” (paté koda). A third adds that “they buy the words from them” (hopé koda). “Buying the harvest, paying with words... |
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