Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling

"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"--

Product details

• Authors: Clara Brakel-Papenhuijzen, Clara Brakel-papenhuyzen
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2012
• EAN: 9789067183871
• ISBN: 978-90-6718-387-1
• No. of pages: 356
• Series: Verhandelingen Van Het Koninkl
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History