Voices of the other: authenticity and consciousness of language in an East Indonesian song tradition
Onotani are songs performed in the Bandanese language (or bahasa Turwandan), currently spoken by some 5,000 people in the Kei Islands of Moluccas, East Indonesia. In this community, a history of migrations and trade contracts has resulted in a high consciousness of linguistic and cultural deversity,...
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
1998
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