Journal of The Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology
Journal of The Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania
In 1977 I prepared a paper for the Second International Conference on Austronesian linguistics. It dealt with the possessive category, its general features, its evolution and its use in grammatical structures of Indonesian languages (Alieva, 1978). Among the problems connected with the possessive category, it is essential to discuss the problem of the possessive structure of a sentence over aga…
Focusing on the traditional cosmology of the Sa'dan Toraja of Indonesia, this article aims to contribute to the recent revival of the animism debate within anthropology (Descola 1992, 1996; Ingold 2000; Viveiros de Castro 1998; Bird- David 1999; Stringer 1999; Pedersen 2001) and to further our understanding of a particular Indonesian cosmos (see also Van der Veen 1965; Nooy-Palm 1979; Bigalke 1…
In his elaborate PhD dissertation, J.O. Sutter (1959:2) defines indonesianisasi as 'a conscious effort to increase the participation and elevate the role of the Indonesian and more particularly, the "indigenous" Indonesian in the more complex sectors of the economy'. In a broader sense, the term stands for the end of Dutch tutelage and subsequent reorientation of the Indonesian economy during t…
One of the assumptions behind the Borneo hypothesis is Sapir's model (1968) claiming that in the quest for a linguistic homeland, the area with the larg est genetic diversity in relation to its size is most likely to be the homeland. This model is useful, all things being equal; but in practice other factors often interfere with it. If one compares Europe to the situation in the Americas, where…