The lands west of the lakes : a history of the Ajattappareng kingdoms of South Sulawesi 1200 to 1600 CE / / Stephen C. Druce

• Autore: Druce Stephen C.
• Pubblicazione: Leiden - Boston, : Brill, 2009; Leiden, Netherlands : , : KITLV Press, , 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 377 pages) : illustrations, maps; digital file(s)
• Disciplina: 959.84
• Soggetto topico: Oral tradition - Indonesia - Sulawesi Selatan
• Soggetto geografico: Sulawesi Selatan (Indonesia) History
• Soggetto non controllato: indonesie; oral tradition; indonesische geschiedenis; verhalen; political history; indonesia; chronicles; indonesian history; kingdoms; politieke geschiedenis; mondelinge traditie; sulawesi selatan; 1200/1600; koninkrijken; Bone state; Buginese people; Gowa Regency; Makassar; South Sulawesi; Tributary; Wajo Kingdom
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Oral and written traditions in South Sulawesi -- A historical perspective on the geography and peoples of the Ajattappareng region -- Origin and precedence in Ajattappareng A historical perspective -- Ajattappareng 1200 to 1600 -- Conclusion -- The tributary and domain lists of Ajattappareng -- Archaeological survey data -- Transliterations and translations of lontaraq texts -- European maps from Chapter III -- Four European maps showing Durate -- List of informants -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized parts of Southeast Asia. The rise of these kingdoms was stimulated and economically supported by trade in prestige goods with other parts of island Southeast Asia, yet the development of these kingdoms was determined by indigenous, rather than imported, political and cultural precepts. Starting in the thirteenth century, the region experienced a transition from swidden cultivation to wet-rice agriculture; rice was the major product that the lowland kingdoms of South Sulawesi exchanged with archipelagic traders. Stephen Druce demonstrates this progression to political complexity by combining a range of sources and methods, including oral, textual, archaeological, linguistic and geographical information and analysis as he explores the rise and development of five South Sulawesi kingdoms, known collectively as Ajattappareng (the Lands West of the Lakes). The author also presents an inquiry into oral traditions of a historical nature in South Sulawesi. He examines their functions, their processes of transmission and transformation, their uses in writing history and their relationship to written texts. He shows that any distinction between oral and written traditions of a historical nature is largely irrelevant, and that the South Sulawesi chronicles, which can be found only for a small number of kingdoms, are not characteristic (as historians have argued) but exceptional in the corpus of indigenous South Sulawesi historical sources. The book will be of primary interest to scholars of pre-European-contact Southeast Asia, including historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, linguists and geographers, and scholars with a broader interest in oral tradition and the relationship between the oral and written registers. Full text (Open Access)
• Titolo autorizzato: The lands west of the lakes
• ISBN: 90-04-25382-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996201664203316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 261.