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KUIPERS, JOEL G. Language, identity, and marginality in Indonesia: the changing nature of ritual speech on the island of Sumba (Stud. social cult. Fdn Lang. 18). xviii, 183 pp., illus., maps, tables, bibliogr. Cambridge: Univ. Press, 1998. [pounds]37.50 (cloth), [pounds]13.95 (paper)

Several recent studies of the western one-third of the Indonesian island of Sumba have focused on highly-developed forms of poetic language. Drawing on his research in the western district of Weyewa, Kuipers describes processes of language change which, since the imposition of Dutch rule and ...