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Article: Research on Bajau communities: maritime people in Southeast Asia. (Abstracts).(Abstract)
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- Borneo Research Bulletin
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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Lapian, Adrian B. and Nagatsu Kazufumi, 1996, Research on Bajau communities: maritime people in Southeast Asia. Asian research trends, no. 6: 45-70.
Bajau or Bajo is the name generally given to the maritime boat people of Eastern Indonesia, who call themselves Sama. This article reviews their history and then moves on to examine recent research trends since the 1960s when serious, long-term anthropological fieldwork on the Bajau began. Very recently their language has attracted a great deal of attention. So far the groups who live in the eastern part of the Archipelago have been ...