(Flores Waiklibang) Mitos Asal Usul Padi, 8, Duet Wanita

Item

Edited Title

BERASI

Archivist's Original Title

id (Flores Waiklibang) Mitos Asal Usul Padi, 8, Duet Wanita

en (Flores Waiklibang) Myth Of The Origin Of Rice (!), Female Duos In Alternation

fr (Flores Waiklibang) Duo Femmes Berasi (Mythe D'Origine Du Riz 8)

Original description

Field recording collected by Dana Rappoport in Eastern Indonesia in 2006 and 2007.

SEA Annotations

Recorded during the Dokan Gurun rite, at dawn, after 8 hours of recitation of the myth The women sing the berasi in the customary house, while the men begin to hit the gongs outside, in front of the koko.

Time duration

00:00:50

MetadataURL

http://archives.crem-cnrs.fr/archives/items/25219/

Recording date of the original material

2006-11-09

Acquisition Date

2007

Population

Lamaholot

Place of the cultural origin

Waiklibang

Country Name

Indonesia

Recording place

Flores, Waiklibang, Kec. Tanjung Bunga, Kabupaten Flores Timur

Resource Language

Lamaholot

Comment

Flores island, Kabupaten Flores Timur, Kecamatan TANJUNG BUNGA, desa Waiklibang (Keywords): agrarian rite - polyphony - drone opak (narrator): Ema Kesi and? In the house, all the women (singers dancers) have been covered with old (Indian) fabrics. They sing at dawn, in the house - rice granary. Their body symbolizes the storage of rice [seed rice?], of the woman in the house. The dokan gurun ("save, set aside, wrap") rite is done to store the seed in the attic. This seed is the body of a sacrificed woman. On this occasion, the myth of the origin of rice is recited all night long, while dancing in front of the koké temple, between the Maran clan house and the temple. See video, see publications. Transcriptions of the entire myth and translation into Indonesian.