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Paperback To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia Book

ISBN: 0521028000

ISBN13: 9780521028004

To Speak in Pairs: Essays on the Ritual Languages of Eastern Indonesia

(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture Series)

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These original essays study ritual language and parallelism (the strict ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introduction puts the topic in historical perspective and what was once viewed as a composition form unique to ancient Hebrew is now seen as a feature common to literatures around the world. Here is the first book to compare in detail living traditions of parallel composition. Yet, despite the diversity of languages...

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