Dairi Stories and Pakpak Storytelling
Subtitle: A Storytelling Tradition from the North Sumatran Rainforest
Publisher: BRILL; Brill
Published: 2013
Language: eng; btk; dut
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9789067183871
Subjects: Folk literature, history and criticism; Storytelling; Indonesia, social life and customs
Description: "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"--