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Voices from Sulu
A Collection of Tausug Oral Traditions
Edited by Gerard Rixhon
- Publisher
- Ateneo de Manila University Press
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 436
- ISBN
- 9789715506168
- Availability
- In print
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About the book
Tausug epics, tales, songs and sayings recorded over forty years in Sulu, with translations, from the founder of the journal Sulu Studies.
This 436-page collection gathers Tausug oral art recorded decades ago in the Sulu archipelago: stories, chants, poems, proverbs and riddles. The book credits the storytellers and singers as its real authors, among them Mullung (Muhammad Absari Salahuddin). Gerard Rixhon edited and compiled it for the Ateneo de Manila University Press's Mindanao Studies series.
Some pieces first appeared in the journal Sulu Studies. Others come from Tausug tales collected by the anthropologist H. Arlo Nimmo in the early 1960s. Rixhon and Nimmo annotate the texts and keep them close to their original form, even where they depart from mainstream Islamic teaching. The text is mostly in English, with some Tausug. Rixhon closes with an overview and classification of Tausug oral traditions.
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