Djawanai Stephanus. Ngadha text tradition: the collective mind of the Ngadha people, Flores

The Australian National University, Research School of Pacific Studies, 1983. — 306 p. — (Pacific Linguistics: Series D 55).The study is concerned primarily with collective representations mani fest in language, in the text and its performance, and the social discourse that it evokes. To put the text in its proper perspective within the Ngadha culture I provide as many contexts and as much ethnographic detail as possible within the limited space of this study to enhance a better understanding of the legend text and its place with respect to the Ngadha culture and the people who produced the text.