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Introduction In spite of the recent resurgence in scholarly interest in eastern Indonesia, the conception of Maluku as a linguistic area remains in its infancy. Though many excellent literature reviews and bibliographies have appeared, none has attempted to specifically address linguistics or language. Polman‘s bibliographies ...

South Africa‘s indigenous people had lived off the fat of the land and the sea since the Stone Age and what little is known of their lifestyle, has mostly been gleaned from the rock art of the Bushmen who painted on the walls of caves using naturally occurring pigments. The San (Bushmen) and Khoi (Hottentots) - collectively referred ...

By Cheu Hock-Tong When we talk about global culture, we essentially refer to those cultural elements which shape the common way of life of human communities through the process of globalization. By globalization we relate to the rapid means by which goods, people and information are transported on a worldwide basis. The unprecedented ...

By Tan Sri Haji Mubin Sheppard Journal of Malayan Branch Royal Asiatic Society - Vol. 40, Part 1, 1967, pages 149–152 In August 1878 Frank Swettenham, a junior officer in the Malayan Civil Service who was then serving in the Colonial Secretary`s Office, read a paper at a meeting of the Straits Branch Royal Asiatic Society in ...

Some of Australia‘s earliest visitors, pre-dating European settlement, were in fact Muslims from the east Indonesian archipelago. These were anglers from the island of Makassar who came to fish for the ‘trepang‘, commonly known as the ‘dugong‘ or sea cow for the lucrative Chinese market where it was considered a delicacy. Australian ...

The Malays are the race of people who inhabit the Malay Peninsula (what is today Peninsular Malaysia) and portions of adjacent islands of Southeast Asia, including the east coast of Sumatra, the coast of Borneo, and smaller islands that lie between these areas. Anthropologists trace the home of the Malay race to the northwestern ...

Stephen Druce The languages spoken in South Sulawesi belong to one of four stocks of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family; namely, the South Sulawesi stock, the Central Sulawesi stock, the Muna-Buton stock and the Sama-Bajaw stock.  Speakers of Muna-Buton stock languages inhabit the area of Wotu in Luwu ...