Affinity, consanguinity, and incest; The case of the orang Lom, Bangka, Indonesia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2878075 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olaf H Smedal (1. [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 147 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-127 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003201 |
| OpenAlex | W29279096 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
The Lom, sometimes also referred to as the Mapur, are a Malay-speakingl group occupying an area of some 200 square kilometres in north-eastern Bangkaan island situated in the South China Sea, very roughly midway between Singapore and Jakarta (see Map l).Presently the Lom number some 800 individuals, most of whom live in nuclear family units.About fifty per cent of the population live in kampung Air Abik and the surrounding forestthe other fifty per cent are found along the coast, many of them in kampung Pejam (see Map 2).The Lom grow hilllupland rice, cassava and yams in swiddens; cash crops such as pepper, cloves, pineapples and bananas (to name but a few); and coconuts along the sea shore.Most households keep some chickens and a dog andlor a cat.Those growing coconuts usually raise pigs, which they sell at the market in the nearest town (Belinyu) or to the inhabitants of some of the nearby villages, occupied primarily by ethnic Chinese.Published accounts of the Lom are scant and, as far as I know, have al1 been written by non-anthropologists.In the main they describe the material life of this 'heathen' population in the briefest of terms, stressing that the Lom eat indiscriminately and emphasizing their laziness and low 1 To say that they are Malay-speaking is to over-simplify.It is not a straightforward task to determine whether a local dialect is just that or whether it can better be classified as a language.Commenting on a draft of my 1987 publication, which also contains comparative lexicostatistical material from five Bangka isolects, a linguist stated: 'Lom is one of the languages on Bangka, and it has a certain similarity to official Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia).Nevertheless the differences are so great that it cannot be characterized as a dialect of Indonesian.In Richard Salzner: Sprachenatlas des indopazifichen Raumes it has the status of a separate language.'(Otto Chr.Dahl, personal communication; see Salzner 1960: 1 1 and Holle 1889.)Bangka Malay has hitherto been almost entirely uninvestigated (see also Voorhoeve 1955:23-24).In this paper, non-English terms are italicized throughout.It should be emphasized that these are sometimes native, sometimes Indonesian.This inconsistency is due to the fact that most Lom are fairly proficient in Bahasa Indonesia and hence most discussions with them were in that language
Ancient history · Ethnology · Geography · Malay · Population · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Demography · History · Multilingual Education and Policy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |