Author: Anthony Jukes
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-02
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 9004412662
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book describes the Makasar language of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, drawing heavily on three centuries of literary sources. Makasarese is notable as head–marking and ergative/absolutive in alignment, and its large number of geminate and pre–glottalised consonants.
Author: David E. Mead
Publisher: Pacific Linguistics Research School of Pacific and Asian Stu
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. Noorduyn
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 270
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles E. Grimes
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780858833524
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen C. Druce
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-01-01
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9004253823
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized parts of Southeast Asia. The rise of these kingdoms was stimulated and economically supported by trade in prestige goods with other parts of island Southeast Asia, yet the development of these kingdoms was determined by indigenous, rather than imported, political and cultural precepts. Starting in the thirteenth century, the region experienced a transition from swidden cultivation to wet-rice agriculture; rice was the major product that the lowland kingdoms of South Sulawesi exchanged with archipelagic traders. Stephen Druce demonstrates this progression to political complexity by combining a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes). The author also presents an inquiry into oral traditions of a historical nature in South Sulawesi. He examines their functions, their processes of transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship to written texts. He shows that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that the South Sulawesi chronicles, which can be found only for a small number of kingdoms, are not characteristic (as historians have argued) but exceptional in the corpus of indigenous South Sulawesi historical sources. The book will be of primary interest to scholars of pre-European-contact Southeast Asia, including historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geographers, and scholars with a broader interest in oral tradition and the relationship between the oral and written registers.
Author: K. Alexander Adelaar
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 866
ISBN-13: 0700712860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An essential source of reference for this linguistic community, as well as for linguists working on typology and syntax.
Author: Peter Bellwood
Publisher: ANU E Press
Published: 2006-09-01
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1920942858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Austronesian-speaking population of the world are estimated to number more than 270 million people, living in a broad swathe around half the globe, from Madagascar to Easter Island and from Taiwan to New Zealand. The seventeen papers in this volume provide a general survey of these diverse populations focusing on their common origins and historical transformations. The papers examine current ideas on the linguistics, prehistory, anthropology and recorded history of the Austronesians.