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E-book The Bugis Chronicle of Bone

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We present, in this book, a transliterated transcription of the Bugis text of the work known as the Chronicle of Bone, together with an English translation and notes. The chronicle deals with the affairs of this traditional kingdom in South Sulawesi—almost exactly in the centre of modern Indonesia—from the fourteenth century to the middle of the seventeenth century CE.Our introduction provides the information needed for others to make use of the chronicle for their own purposes, whether these be historical, literary, linguistic or ethnological. We deal with the complex philological issues involved—for this is only one version of the work—and outline the cultural and historical contexts within which the chronicle was written. The richness and diversity of written materials in Bugis and Makasar, the main languages of South Sulawesi, were noticed by Leyden, Raffles, Crawfurd and other British scholars in the first half of the nineteenth century, but the works themselves were not properly accessible until the numerous publications of the Dutch linguist and Bible translator Benjamin Frederik Matthes in the second half of the nineteenth century. In his dictionaries, grammars, chrestomathies and, not least, catalogues of manuscripts, Matthes laid the foundations for later study.1 His interests were remarkably wide and he collected manuscripts dealing with a vast range of subjects, particularly those dealing with the past. A.A. Cense has characterised and discussed various types of historical information found in Bugis and Makasar manuscripts. He distinguishes source materials—that is, diaries, treaty texts, adat legal records and correspondence—from historiographical literature in the form of short accounts of particular matters and chronicles. He also discusses the historical worth of various forms of verse, especially the tolo’, or Bugis narrative poetry with an eight-syllable line. Noorduyn, in the introduction to his edition of a chronicle of Wajo, lists other related material under the headings of chronicles, king lists, treaties and episodes. A further category is that of genealogies (Cense 1951; Noorduyn 1955).

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

909.041 MAC t

Penerbit

Australia : ANU Press., 2020

Deskripsi Fisik

166 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781760463588

Klasifikasi

909.041

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

History of Race of Indonesia

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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