Preliminary notes on Bandanese; Language maintenance and change in Kei

Collins, James; Kaartinen, Timo

doi:10.1163/22134379-90003884

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“…This village, along with several others on the Kei Islands and in Southeast Seram, was settled by refugees from Portuguese and Dutch attacks in the early seventeenth century. Banda Eli oral history holds that pottery making was a tradition brought from Banda in their ight, and is an integral part of their cultural identity in the Kei Islands (Collins and Kaartinen 1998;Stejskal 1988), but decorative traditions appear to have changed. Earthenware from Banda is also distinct from contemporary Mare (north Maluku) pottery, though some ancient Mare design elements also appear in Banda earthenware (compare Mahirta 1996 with Figure 2).…”

Section: Political Dynamics and Religious Change 141mentioning

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Political dynamics and religious change in the late pre-colonial Banda Islands, Eastern Indonesia

Lape¹

2000

World Archaeology

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Recently completed archaeological survey and excavation, in conjunction with a re-analysis of historical documents and oral histories, brings to light new evidence about the pre-colonial (tenth to seventeenth centuries) society of the Banda Islands, once the world's sole source of nutmeg. The new data challenge historical assumptions about settlement, Islamization and the nature of trade networks in pre-colonial Banda. They also have implications for the history of con ict between Bandanese and European colonizers, which resulted in genocide, enslavement or forced migration of the Bandanese population in the 1620s, and the beginning of the colonial era in what is today Indonesia.

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Section: Political Dynamics and Religious Change 141mentioning

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Political dynamics and religious change in the late pre-colonial Banda Islands, Eastern Indonesia

Lape¹

2000

World Archaeology

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“…Bandanese survivors were either enslaved and sent to Batavia or fled seeking refuge amongst their traditional trading partners and allies in Kei, Aru and Geser-Gorom. Most notably, there are two villages in Kei, today Eli and Elat, which were established by those exiled from Banda, and still speak the Bandanese language (Collins and Kaartinen 1998). The exact number of Bandanese people killed and exiled is unknown, but the overall population of Banda was so depleted that the workforce had to be restocked with slaves (Loth 1995).…”

Section: Drivers Of Village Fortification In Southern Malukumentioning

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Build the wall!

Schapper

2019

Indonesia and the Malay World

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The physical remains and extensive historical documentation of fortified settlements across a large swathe of southern Maluku has gone unnoticed by scholars. On the basis of historical accounts and images, I have constructed a detailed picture of the 'southern Maluku village fortification pattern' which was once typical of settlements in the region. Using evidence from language, I show that stone building was an indigenous tradition in the southeastern corner of Indonesia which subsequently was extended to stone fortifications around villages, which spread across southern Maluku. I suggest that the fortification of settlements was triggered here in the first half of 17th century by a climate of fear arising from the 1621 Banda massacre perpetuated by the Dutch.

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“…We do not know whether it was specialist potters who took their skills with them or whether the industry was re-invented in the places where Banda settled. Certainly, Banda Eli has oral traditions that pottery making came from Banda and is an integral part of their cultural identity (Collins and Kaartinen 1998;Stejskal 1988). A story that I collected in March 1981 suggests that only men fled Banda, so had to intermarry from the beginning.…”

Section: Evidence For the Trade In Banda Kei Pottery After 1621mentioning

confidence: 99%