The Bajau Laut adaptation, history and fate in a maritime fishing society of south-eastern Sabah
Until 1955 the community described in this book was sea nomadic, its families living entirely in boats. Although comprising only a small minority of the total Bajau-speaking population, sea nomads formed for centuries an integral part of the coastal society of south-eastern Sabah. The Bajau Laut tra...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Kuala Lumpur u.a.
Oxford Univ. Press
1997
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| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Schriftenreihe: | South-East Asian social science monographs
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Until 1955 the community described in this book was sea nomadic, its families living entirely in boats. Although comprising only a small minority of the total Bajau-speaking population, sea nomads formed for centuries an integral part of the coastal society of south-eastern Sabah. The Bajau Laut traces the history of a single community from the early nineteenth century to the present, treating in particular a fifteen-year interval of rapid transformation during which time members of the community abandoned sea nomadism and adapted to a coastal market centre as commercial fishermen and labourers. The book looks in detail at the processes of change, at the social constitution of the community - the nature of family and marriage relations; house groups and house-group clusters; village leadership, factionalism, and conflict; Islam and village mediums - and at the underlying cultural premises that give coherence to village life, notably the notions of fate, debt, compassion, and ancestry. |
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| Beschreibung: | XVIII, 359 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9835600155 983-56-0015-5 |