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Peoples, languages, practices, narratives, objects and places — each written with its sources, and with what is not yet known stated plainly.

For instance Minangkabau rambu solo nyale Kubu merantau

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People 32 Language 19 Belief system 6 Narrative 9 Figure 3 Practice 24 Object 12 Place 14 Text 5 Institution 6 All records 130

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A peopleThe group that bears the practices, languages and narratives. A placeA layered map with its precision stated. A time of yearWhen ceremonies fall, and how their timing is fixed. A disputeUnsettled claims, with every position recorded.

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Baduy A Sundanese-speaking community in Kanekes village, Lebak, Banten, which practises Sunda Wiwitan and limits contact with the outside world to different degrees in Baduy Dalam and Baduy Luar. PeopleVigorous Malin Kundang The narrative of an undutiful son who leaves to merantau, grows rich, refuses to acknowledge his mother, and is cursed into stone — told along the West Sumatran coast and known across… NarrativeVigorous Minangkabau A Minangkabau-speaking population of the West Sumatran highlands and coast, whose matrilineal kinship runs alongside Sunni Muslim life, and whose tradition of merantau has carried its… PeopleVigorous Rambu Solo' The Toraja mortuary sequence, held months or years after death, whose cost is borne by a network of obligations between tongkonan and whose scale states the standing of the deceased. PracticeVigorous Bugis A Bugis-speaking people of South Sulawesi, seafarers and traders whose settlements are spread across the waters of the archipelago, and the holders of one of the longest literary corpora in… PeopleMaintained Toraja A highland people of South Sulawesi whose customary life turns on the tongkonan house and on two ceremonial poles: rambu tuka', rising smoke, for life, and rambu solo', descending smoke,… PeopleMaintained La Galigo A Bugis literary corpus in the Lontara script, held to be among the longest in the world, never complete in any single manuscript and surviving as dispersed portions. TextDormant

What is still disputed

Unsettled disputes are not flattened into one sentence. Every position is recorded with who holds it and on what source.

How many Orang Rimba are there? Orang Rimba · 2 recorded positions Does the scale of rambu solo' impoverish the families who hold it? Rambu Solo' · 3 recorded positions Did Malin Kundang originate in Minangkabau customary telling, or is it a local form of a tale circulating widely in the Malay world? Malin Kundang · 2 recorded positions Does the classification of Aluk To Dolo as a branch of Hinduism describe its content? Aluk To Dolo · 2 recorded positions

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