SUMBA

or Soembaboth: soomˈbä, island (1990 pop. 444,777), 4,305 sq mi (11,150 sq km), Indonesia, one of the Lesser Sundas, in the Indian Ocean, S of Flores across Sumba Strait. The chief town and port is Waingapu. The island is noted for horse breeding. Formerly Sumba was known as Sandalwood Island because of its large exports (17th–19th cent.) of sandalwood. The island was first visited by Europeans in 1522 and passed to the direct control of the Dutch in 1866.

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books on: Sumba  - 106 results

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Power in Performance: The Creation of Textual Authority in Weyewa Ritual Speech
Book by Joel Corneal Kuipers; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990
Subjects: Folklore--Indonesia--Sumba Island--Performance, Wewewa (Indonesian People)--Folklore, Wewewa (Indonesian People)--Rites And Ceremonies, Wewewa Dialect--Social Aspects--Indonesia--Sumba Island, Wewewa Dialect--Texts
...people --Folklore. 3. Folklore--Indonesia--Sumba Island--Performance. 4. Wewewa dialect--Social aspects--Indonesia-- Sumba Island. 5. Wewewa dialect--Texts. I. Title...2. Ethnolinguistic map of Sumba 13...
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Landlords and Strangers: Ecology, Society, and Trade in Western Africa, 1000-1630
Book by George E. Brooks; Westview Press, 1993
Subjects: Africa, West--Commerce--History, Africa, West--History--To 1884
...Mani and Mani-Sumba Migrations and Their Consequences...The Era of Mani-Sumba Rule of Cape Mount and Serra Leoa...15 Mani and Mani-Sumba migrations 287...
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Indonesian Textiles
Book by Michael Hitchcock; IconEditions, 1991
Subjects: Hand Weaving--Indonesia, Textile Crafts--Indonesia
...decorates this shoulder-cloth, hinggi , from Sumba. Woven in heavy cotton, this warp-ikat...dyeing they Handwoven cotton sarong from Sumba decorated with ikat and supplementary...University, CSEAS PDT13. Young women on Sumba wearing handwoven cotton blankets and...
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The Potent Dead: Ancestors, Saints, and Heroes in Contemporary Indonesia
Book by Henri Chambert-Loir, Anthony Reid; Allen & Unwin, 2002
Subjects: Ancestor Worship--Indonesia, Cemeteries--Indonesia, Death--Symbolic Aspects--Indonesia, Funeral Rites And Ceremonies--Indonesia, Indonesia--Religious Life And Customs, Indonesia--Social Life And Customs
...creation of ancestors in Laboya West Sumba, Eastern Indonesia Danielle C...30 Figure 3.1 Traditional Sumba village of Wujimate 34 Figure 3.2 Descendants of Raja Laboya West Sumba 39 Figure 3.3 Layout of houses...
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The Pulse of the Earth
Book by J. H. F. Umbgrove; M. Nijhoff, 1947
Subjects: Earth, Geology
...furrows. Remarkable situation of the island Sumba. Relation of its site to the belt of negative anomalies and...Tertiary volcanic rocks on is lands of the outer arc and on Sumba. The double row of volcanoes in the northern Moluccas. The...
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journal articles on: Sumba  - 40 results

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Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
Journal article by Fiona Kerlogue; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 33, 2002
Subjects: Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba (Book)
...Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba by Fiona Kerlogue By JILL FORSHEE...Notes, Bibliography, Index. The cloths of Sumba are among the most familiar of Indonesian...experiences in several village environments in Sumba, presenting through vignettes a series...
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Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba
Journal article by Catherine Allerton; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 8, 2002
Subjects: Between the Folds: Stories of Cloth, Lives, and Travels from Sumba (Book)
Between the folds: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba by Catherine Allerton FORSHEE, JILL. Between the folds: stories of cloth, lives, and travels from Sumba. xiv, 265 pp., map, plates, illus., bibliogr. Honolulu: Univ...
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Religious Change and Historical Reflection in Anakalang, West Sumba, Indonesia
Journal article by Webb Keane; Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol. 26, 1995
Subjects: Ethnicity--Analysis, Indonesia--Religious aspects, Social change--Analysis
...historical reflection in Anakalang, West Sumba, Indonesia. by Webb Keane...Conversion in Anakalang, a district of West Sumba in the Indonesian Province of Nusa Tenggara...Southeast Asia,(2) I would argue that in Sumba, at the present historical moment, identity...
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The Menstrual Hut and the Witch's Lair in Two Eastern Indonesian Societies
Journal article by Janet Hoskins; Ethnology, Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Ethnology--Research, Menstruation--Social aspects, Witchcraft--Social aspects, Women--Physiological aspects, Women--Social aspects
...female bodies. In contrast, the Kodi of Sumba do not seclude women during menstruation...the Kodi women of the coastal villages of Sumba, with whom I had lived for three years...a seance in the village. THE KODI OF SUMBA, LESSER SUNDA ISLANDS The use of male...
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The Practice of Oral Literary Criticism Women's Songs in Kangra, India
Journal article by Kirin Narayan; Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 108, 1995
Subjects: Folklore, Folklore--United States, Manners And Customs, United States--Social Life And Customs
...said they would sing what they called "Sumba" (husband) 5 for me the next day. I was...back bedroom. The sisters recalled that "Sumba" was very much like the song that I had...up my recorder, and I taped: sumba sumaa akhiye Call him Husband, Husband...
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magazine articles on: Sumba  - 2 results

 
 
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Angola: Keeping Secrets; Angola Is like an Unspoilt Dream, Yet I Would Be Lying If I Said Everything Runs like Clockwork. It Is a Haphazard Country-But It Is Safe, the People Friendly, and Its Beauty Unsurpassable, Writes Kate Eshelby, Just Back from a Tour of Angola
Magazine article by Kate Eshelby; New African, May 2007
Subjects: Angola--Description and travel
...village of Chitado, on Angolas southern border. Orlando, a local school teacher, is attempting to teach me the national Kis-sumba dancing. Playing the rhythmic beats on a crackling radio, I swing my hips in attempted parody of his perfect tempo. The dance...
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2006 First Choice Responsible Tourism Awards: Nominate a Responsible Tourism Winner and a Trip to Antarctica Could Be Yours
Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 78, August 2006
...communities Among last years winners were a luxury resort in Indonesia thats dedicated to reducing poverty on the island of Sumba and a Maasai camp in Kenya that empowers disadvantaged local Maasai women. "Were expecting the competition to be hotter than...


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newspaper articles on: Sumba  - 11 results

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FRESH AND WILD; Save the Planet and See It at the Same Time. Mike Higgins Unearths Ten Eco-Holidays, Offering Everything from Blue-Footed Boobies to Friendly Orangutans
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), January 27, 2006
...Over the past five years, guests at Nihiwatu on the island of Sumba have donated over $450,000 to local tribes. Of course, you can...the resort encourages guests to visit villages to see how its Sumba Foundation has made a difference: 22 water stations and seven...
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Nature Centre Staff Hope for Elvis and Priscilla Comeback
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 20, 2006
...forward, adding: "Elvis and Priscilla are on a specific diet and will be distressed." The birds, a rare subspecies from the Sumba Less Islands in Indonesia, are one of only a 100 pairs in the UK and are part of the international breeding programme to boost...
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Fabrics of Asia; Dazzling Malaysian, Indonesian Collection among Best in World
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 23, 2005
...for the Living and the Dead" space. Huge Toraja hangings and Sumba wrappers of both geometric and human-and-animal designs reveal...Visitors shouldnt miss the vertically hung mens wrapper from Sumba hung near the Toraja pieces. Contrasting with the strict geometries...
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Helping to Give Africa a Chance
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), October 19, 2005
...work in a more developing country and be part of the community," she says. "I worked for just over three years in Indonesia on Sumba, a small island of 200,000 people." She landed a job working on an EU education project to re-establish secondary education...
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Timor Proposes Dispersing Refugees to Islands: Rights Groups Fear Moves against Will
Newspaper article by Richard S. Ehrlich; The Washington Times, September 16, 1999
Subjects: East Timor
...East Timors transmigrants could accommodate about 100,000 refugees. The land parcels are on the nearby smaller islands of Sumba, Flores and Alor to the north and east; and also in West Timor, Mr. Priyono added. "If the exodus continues, we will seek...
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encyclopedia articles on: Sumba  - 5 results

 
 
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Sumba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SUMBA or Soemba both: soom ba, island (1990 pop. 444,777...the Lesser Sundas, in the Indian Ocean, S of Flores across Sumba Strait. The chief town and port is Waingapu. The island is noted for horse breeding. Formerly Sumba was known as Sandalwood Island because of its large exports...
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Sandalwood Island , Former Name of Sumba, Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SANDALWOOD ISLAND , former name of Sumba, Indonesia see Sumba , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Soemba
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SOEMBA see Sumba , Indonesia. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sunda Islands
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...islands of Borneo, Sumatra, Java, and Sulawesi; and the Lesser Sundas, which lie E of Java and include Sumbawa, Flores, Timor, and Sumba (the largest islands). Bali and Lombok, although smaller, are the most important of the Lesser Sundas. The Lesser Sundas, which...
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Indonesia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sumatra , central and S Borneo (Kalimantan), and Sulawesi ; the Lesser Sunda Islands, consisting of Bali , Flores , Sumba , Lombok , and the western part of Timor ; the Moluccas (Maluku), with Ambon , Seram , and Halmahera ; and the...


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