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Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1957, Vol.113 (3), p.293 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright KITLV, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies 1957 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379

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  • Title:
    Book Reviews
  • Author: Teeuw, A ; Brown, C C ; Ouwehand, C ; Kano Tadao ; GD van Wengen ; Hood, Mantle ; Fischer, H Th ; Schebesta, P
  • Subjects: Culture ; Dialects ; Dictionaries ; Phonetic transcription ; Pronunciation ; Reading ; Regional dialects ; Spelling
  • Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 1957, Vol.113 (3), p.293
  • Description: [...]the writer has taken the trouble to give side by side for every sentence the full spelling in the accepted romanized form as well as the approximate pronunciation in the dialects but just in view of this service to the reader a more exact phonetic transcription would have been doubly valuable. [...]some more detailed remarks: the added Index to principal explanatory notes is accurate and very useful; still it could have been expanded without much extra work into a still more useful index of words which are not sufficiently explained in the main existing dictionaries. [...]Dr. Kano's investigations and views (for which especially reference ought to be made to his Studies mentioned above) brought to light that Botel Tobago played a conspicious role in the BOEKBESPREKING. 299 migrational movements of Southeast Asiatic peoples; he pointed to the close affinity between the Yami culture and that of the inhabitants of the Batan archipelago (Philippines) and established the fact that the early inhabitants of Botel Tobago too belonged to what Otley Beyer called the Jar-burial Culture, believed to find its origins in Southern China from where it spread southwards, whereas Mabuchi (introduction p. 11) stresses possible implications of outstanding traits of Yami culture such as the gondola-shaped plank boat "not reported either in the Philippines or in Formosa proper", but of which "a relatively close parallel is to be found in the Moluccas and the Solomon Islands far to the South" and the cultivation of wet-taro as a staple food together with Italian millet, foremost important for ritual and ceremonial purposes, Botel Tobago thus being "sandwiched" between the prevelantly rice cultivating cultures of the -Philippines and Indonesia to the south (with marginal taro cultivation in the Banggai archipelago, Enggano and Nias) and the millet cultivating cultures of Formosa to the north. The volume now under review contains besides many sketches and photographs of separate objects about 900 well documented and mostly excellent photos divided over nine chapters respectively on physical features, habitation, clothing and adornment, agriculture, fishing and fishing gear, preparation of foodstuffs, boats and boat building, arts and crafts, family life.
  • Publisher: Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
    EISSN: 2213-4379
  • Source: AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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    Alma/SFX Local Collection
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