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This collection of eighteen papers explores issues in the study of semantic parallelism - a world-wide tradition in the composition of oral poetry.

Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Semantics. --- Parallelism (Linguistics) --- Formal semantics --- Semasiology --- Semiology (Semantics) --- Language and languages --- Linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Information theory --- Lexicology --- Meaning (Psychology) --- Style

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The eight papers in this volume examine the spatial organization of a variety of Austronesian houses and relate the domestic design of these houses to the social and ritual practices of the specific groups who reside within them. The houses considered in this volume range from longhouses in Borneo to the meeting-houses of the Maori of New Zealand and from the magnificent houses of the Minangkabau of Sumatra to the simpler dwellings of the population of Goodenough Island in Papua New Guinea. Together these papers indicate common features of domestic design from island South-East Asia to Melanesia and the Pacific. This volume is a publication of the Research School of Pacific Studies' Comparative Austronesian Project.

Architecture, Domestic --- Vernacular architecture --- Social aspects --- Vernacular architecture. --- Architecture, Rural --- Domestic architecture --- Home design --- Houses --- One-family houses --- Residences --- Rural architecture --- Villas --- Architecture, Anonymous --- Architecture, Indigenous --- Architecture, Vernacular --- Folk architecture --- Indigenous architecture --- Traditional architecture --- Architecture --- Dwellings --- Southeast Asia --- Social life and customs. --- Southeast Asian --- Domiciles --- Homes --- Residential buildings --- Single-family homes --- Buildings --- House-raising parties --- Household ecology --- Housing --- Social life and customs --- Architecture vernaculaire --- Architecture domestique --- Habitations --- Aspect social --- Asie du Sud-Est --- Mœurs et coutumes

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This collection of essays is a major contribution to the study of oral composition and ritual communication, and in particular to the use of 'parallelism' (the poetic ordering of words and phrases in alternative, duplicate form). The introduction by James J. Fox sets the topic in historical perspective, beginning with Robert Lowth's introduction of the term 'parallelism' in 1753 in his study of biblical language, demonstrating that what was once viewed as a form of composition unique to Ancient Hebrew is a feature common to many literatures around the world. The volume thus presents a remarkable picture of life in eastern Indonesia, which is both valuable in itself and useful for comparative analysis. All of the essays contain original texts with translations, together with detailed commentaries on their content and the context of their performance. The study of parallelism and its use in situations of formal communication has been receiving increasing attention from anthropologists, linguists, and all those interested in oral literature, as a topic of real theoretical and ethnographic interest. To Speak in Pairs represents an important advance in the study of oral literature in context.

Language and languages --- Ritual. --- Religious aspects. --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- Indonesia --- Languages --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Religion and language --- Endonèsie --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- Indonesië --- Indonesya --- Indonezia --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Indūnīsīyā --- Induonezėjė --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Republika Indonezija --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- United States of Indonesia --- Yinni --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Република Индонезия --- Индонезия --- Інданезія --- إندونيسيا --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- インドネシア --- インドネシア共和国 --- Dutch East Indies

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Economic anthropology --- Ethnology --- Borassus --- Palms

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