Ketenteraman negeri Unenapo tergannggu. Seekor burung raksasa kerap mendatangi ladang. Memakan tanaman dan hewan, bahkan memangsa manusia. para toono motuo, tetua adat, berembuk mencari cara mengatasinya. Bagaimana upaya warga mengusir si burung kongga? Bacalah kisah dalam buku ini. Kalian akan menemukan pelajaran berharga.
"The Bugis Chronicle of Bone is a masterwork in the historiographical tradition of South Sulawesi in Indonesia. Written in the late seventeenth century for a very specific political purpose, it describes the steady growth of the kingdom of Bone from the fourteenth century onwards. The local conquests of the fifteenth century, closely linked to agricultural expansion, give way to the long confli…
The central Indonesian island of Sulawesi has recently been hitting headlines with respect to its archaeology. It contains some of the oldest directly dated rock art in the world, and some of the oldest evidence for a hominin presence beyond the southeastern limits of the Ice Age Asian continent. In this volume, scholars from Indonesia and Australia come together to present their research findi…
A History of South Sulawesi in the seventeeth century
The period 1200-1600 CE saw a radical transformation from simple chiefdoms to kingdoms (in archaeological terminology, complex chiefdoms) across lowland South Sulawesi, a region that lay outside the ‘classical’ Indicized parts of Southeast Asia. The rise of these kingdoms was stimulated and economically supported by trade in prestige goods with other parts of island Southeast Asia, yet the …