The Stranger-Kings of Sikka
Publisher: KITLV Press, Leiden, The Netherlands
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden, The Netherlands
Language: eng; map
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 461
Description: "[An account of the] historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas ... [The author] interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research ... [This book is] illustrated with ... authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts, and photographs"--Page 4 of cover.
Table of contents: title: List of figures, tables and abbreviations; title: xi; title: Acknowledgments; title: xv; title: Preface; title: xix; title: Part 1	Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka; The chronicles of the Rajadom of Sikka; title: Introduction (E. Douglas Lewis); title: I	The people of Sikka and the Boer and Kondi manuscripts	1; title: The Ata Sikka	1; title: The provenance and ‘discovery’ of the Kondi and Boer 		manuscripts 11; title: The authors: Mo'ang D.D.P. Kondi Mo'ang Boer 		Pareira 18; title: Biographical Sketches of D.D.P. Kondi and A. Boer 		Pareira (Oscar Pareira Mandalangi)	26; title: Dominicus Dionitius Pareira Kondi  27; title: Alexius Boer Pareira  33; title: Description of the manuscripts	36; title: Dates of composition	38; title: The languages of the manuscripts  41; title: Notes on the translation of the texts  45; title: Ritual language and its translation  49; title: The recension of the manuscripts 	51; title: II	Structure and themes of the Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka 	55; title: Structure  55; title: A note of the pairing of ancestral names and genealogical 		succession  63; title: A note on social groups in Sikka 70; title: Remarks on the narrative  71; title: III	Summary notes and outline of the Hikayat	75; title: The first ‘dewasa’: The autochthons and the newcomers	75; title: Complexities and confusions in the texts of the first; title: ‘dewasa’  81; title: Mo'ang Bata Jawa; title: Mo'ang Baga Ngang and the usurpation of Old Hokor	88; title: Don Alésu da Silva, Augustinyu da Gama and Raja Worilla 89; title: The structure of the government of the early rajadom and; title: its contemporary significance		95; title: Ratu Dona Agnes Ines da Silva	101; title: The second ‘dewasa’; Raja Mbako I Kikir Hiwa and Raja 			Thomas Mbo I		104; title: The third ‘dewasa’; The modern Rajas	107; title: IV	The sovereignty of Sikka’s stranger-kings	111; title: The motif of the stranger-king	112; title: The problem of sovereignty	118; title: Diarchy in the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands and Sikka  120; title: The problem of sovereignty in Sikka 126; title: V	Marriage, sovereignty, and the paths of ivory in Sikka 	133; title: Ivory and marriage in Sikka 	137; title: Marriage without bridewealth	142; title: Marriage in the Hikayat, I	146; title: The strangeness of the stranger	149; title: Marriage in the Hikayat, II	152; title: Hierarchized value		155; title: VI	Stranger-Kings and myths of xenarchy in the Eastern Lesser; title: Sunda Islands	161; title: The occurrence of stranger-king myths in Sumba; title: and central and western Flores	167; title: Sumba		167; title: Manggarai	172; title: Ngada, Nage, and Keo	174; title: Ende and Lio	178; title: Stranger-king myths in Larantuka, the Lamaholot archipelago 		and Timor	181; title: Larantuka (East Flores)	181; title: Solor, Adonara and Lembata	182; title: Timor, Roti, Savu and Raijua	186; title: Mambai	186; title: Wehali (West Timor)	187; title: Atoni	188; title: Roti	192; title: Savu and Raijua	194; title: The occurrence of stranger-king myths in the eastern Lesser 		Sunda Islands: Summary and conclusion		196; title: When did the stranger-kings of Sikka arrive on Flores and 		who were they?	197; title: Part 2; title: Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka; The Chronicles of the Rajadom of Sikka; title: An integrated text (D.D.P. Kondi and A. Boer Pareira); title: Preface (D.D.P. Kondi); title: 207; title: VII	The first period: The autochthons and newcomers 	209; title: The autochthons	209; title: The newcomers		213; title: The verse of Raé Raja and Rubang Sina	215; title: Verse about Mo'ang Sugi Sao, who climbed a mountain to 		watch for Goanese ships		219; title: The discovery of the autochthons	219; title: The newcomers build a house and open gardens	220; title: Mo'ang Sugi marries Du'a Sikka; the birth of Mo'ang Sao  224; title: The travels of Mo'ang Sugi and Mo'ang Sao; Giving names to 		the places they visit; They discover the place of Natar 		Gahar	229; title: A plan to move to Natar Gahar	231; title: The ordinances of worship	232; title: The population grows; Disputes over boundaries		234; title: The marriage of Mo'ang Sao and Du'a Go'it	235; title: Kondi’s version of Sugi’s advice to Sao	236; title: Boer’s version of Sugi’s advice to Sao	236; title: Further advice to Mo'ang Sao and Du'a Go'it	238; title: The verse of Lupa Lejo Kedo Wirong Aman and Keder Lele 		Inang Datang	241; title: The birth of Mo'ang Saru	243; title: The travels of Mo'ang Sao and Mo'ang Saru; Concerning the 		settlement of disputes	243; title: VIII	Boer: The life of Mo'ang Bata Jawa	245; title: Boer: The verse of Mo'ang Bata Jawa	246; title: Kondi: The life of Mo'ang Bata Jawa	247; title: Verse of Mo'ang Bata Jati Jawa’s gift of a wide plate and a 		black cup to the men of the foundation of the land (Ata 		Kaki) in Lio	250; title: Mo'ang Bata Jawa appoints tana pu'ang	252; title: The Verse of Mo'ang Bata Jawa when he visited the earth 		and went around the land 	253; title: Mo'ang Bata Jawa visits the earth and goes around the land 		to buy spices	256; title: The history of the village of Baluk	260; title: IX	The Life of Mo'ang Baga Ngang	265; title: The era of Mo'ang Baga Ngang	266; title: The usurpation of Hokor and the foundation of; title: Sikka Natar  272; title: The lamentation of the men	274; title: The lamentation of the women	278; title: Kondi’s summary of the lamentation of the women  281; title: Mo'ang Baga Ngang inhabits Sikka   282; title: X	Don Alésu’s journeys to Malacca and through Flores 	285; title: Don Alésu in Malacca	287; title: Don Alésu’s return to Sikka	290; title: Kondi’s account of Thomas Didimus da Gama	296; title: Boer’s version of the narrative of Thomas da Gama	298; title: Kondi’s version of the narrative of Thomas da Gama 			(continued)	300; title: Gifts of ivory masts and sails	302; title: The origins of the people of Sikka Natar		316; title: XI	The reigns of Ratu Dona Maria, Mo'ang Samao da Silva, and; title: Ratu Dona Agnes Ines da Silva; title: 319; title: Ratu Dona Maria and Raja Samao da Silva	319; title: The Life of Ratu Dona Agnes Ines da Silva	321; title: Bridewealth		321; title: Tada	322; title: The Ata Sikka and the Portuguese	324; title: The second period; The middle rajas: Raja Mbako Kikir Hiwa,; title: Raja Prispin da Cunha, Raja Thomas Mo'ang Bo I and Ornay 	da Costa; title: 333; title: Raja Mbako I Kikir Hiwa	333; title: Raja Prispin da Cunha	343; title: The life of Raja Thomas Mo'ang Bo I da Silva	348; title: The life of Ornay da Costa	350; title: XIII	The third period: The rajadom in the early twentieth century; title: (E. Douglas Lewis); title: 353; title: The rebellions in Sikka	354; title: Raja Mbako II and the Jawa Baoleng War	357; title: Boer’s account of the Jawa Baoleng War	357; title: The Teka insurrection and Raja Nai of Kangae	362; title: A chronology of Teka’s insurrection	371; title: The rajas of Larantuka	378; title: Sikka’s last raja: Don Thomas da Silva	381; title: Epilogue (E. Douglas Lewis); title: 383; title: Appendices; title: 1 Map of place names in the Hikayat Kerajaan Sikka 	390; title: 2 Kondi on the origins of the peoples of the Rajadom of Sikka 	392; title: 3 Kondi’s List of Dutch administrators Stationed in Maumere 	401; title: 4 The Nô – Kleian version of the history of Sikka; title: 403; title: Glossary; title: 409; title: Bibliography; title: 415; title: Index	427