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Description:
This article is a wide-ranging ethnographic treatise concerning the Balantak people of the eastern peninsula of Sulawesi, Indonesia. The first part of the article covers various topics including origin story and flood story; native governance and tribute paid to Banggai; settlement patterns and traditional house construction; crime and punishment, including trial by ordeal; dreams, divination, and auguring; bark cloth manufacture; iron working; and hunting. The second part concentrates on the spirit world of the Balantak, the types of spirits, and offerings made to the spirits.
Series:
Sulang Language Data and Working Papers: Translations from the Dutch
Series Number:
015
Publisher:
Sulawesi Language Alliance
Year Published:
2018
Subject Language(s):
Balantak
ISO 639-3:
blz
Publication Language(s):
English
Contributor(s):
Kruyt, Albertus Christiaan
author
Blaauwen, Ewald den
translator
Mead, David
editor
Table of Contents:
Part I: Some remarks about Balantak and its inhabitants; Summary of the region; Creation, flood and dispersion of the people; The ruler of Banggai; The leaders of the country; Tribute for the rajah of Banggai; The spread-out living of the population; Building houses; Theft and its adjudication; Preparing fuya; Forging; Hunting; Part II: The spritual world of the mian Balantak; Pilogot above; Pilogot below; Burake; The spirits of trees; Water spirits; Tompudau and Balani; Pololo’; Priests; The priest’s work; Sumawi; References; Editor’s notes.
Source:
Kruyt, Alb. C. 1932. Balantaksche studiën. Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 72:328–390. Original pagination is indicated by including the page number in square brackets, e.g. [p. 328].
Acknowledgements:
The original translation was facilitated by Wycliffe Bijbelvertalers.
Version History:
Version 1 [28 March 2018] English translation, a thirty-one page typescript, prepared by Ewald den Blaauwen in 1984; rekeyboarded by Jocy Gatchalian, October 2004; checked and edited by David Mead, January 2005; final editing for publication completed by David Mead, March 2018.
Supporting File:
File Description:
Scanned version of the original Dutch article
Copyright:
© 1984–2018 by Ewald den Blaauwen
License:
All Rights Reserved