Legendary Place Names: Coastal Micro-Toponomastics in Alor through the Lens of an Abui Myth

This paper reconstructs a number of Abui (Papuan) place names and micro-toponyms from the coastal area of the Alor Island (South-East Indonesia) through the analysis of a legend about two gods of the Abui traditional religion and the replacement of the first with the second one. The myth appears as...

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Main Author: Perono Cacciafoco, Francesco
Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/80397
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40558
http://ical13.ling.sinica.edu.tw/Call_for_Papers.htm
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English