This dissertation is a documentation of Sula [ISO-639-3 szn, mqc; Glottocode sula1245, mang1408]. Sula is a critically to severely endangered language of North Maluku, Indonesia. This dissertation includes: demographic and ethnographic information about the community, the first …
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The present work has three main goals. Its first goal is simply to describe the language contact phenomena (LCP) occurring in a corpus of conversations among bilingual West Tarangan (WT) speakers of Dobo town in the Aru islands of southeast Maluku, Indonesia. The corpus consists…
Based on the indigenous practices of time-tested pela relationships in Maluku, this interdisciplinary dissertation proposes a symbolic-imagined model/process for interreligious relationships in orally-oriented societies of Indonesia and beyond. From the perspective of the social…
This is a descriptive study of the language spoken on the island of Ternate and some adjacent islands including Halmahera, in the northern Moluccas, eastern Indonesia. The study is based on data collected between May 1998 and April 1999 on the island of Ternate. The dissertation…
Two dominant traditional subsistence economies characterize Central Maluku, eastern Indonesia. One is a coastal strand/maritime-based economy in which marine resources play a central role. The other is an arboreal-based terrestrial economy in which forest resources play a domina…