{"id":3426,"date":"2016-09-08T15:48:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T07:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=3426"},"modified":"2020-05-18T07:14:56","modified_gmt":"2020-05-17T23:14:56","slug":"family-matters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=3426","title":{"rendered":"Family matters: Bugis genealogies and their contribution to Austronesian studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To cite this article: Caldwell, I. and Wellen, K. 2016. Family matters: Bugis genealogies and their contribution to Austronesian studies. In <em>Orality, writing and history: The literature of the Bugis and Makasar of South Sulawesi<\/em>, ed. Druce, S. C. <em>International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies<\/em> 12 (Supp. 1): 119\u2013141, <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.21315\/ijaps2016.12.s1.6\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.21315\/ijaps2016.12.s1.6<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Early Bugis written sources consist largely of genealogies. Assuming no significant loss of other genres, it is clear that genealogies were central to Bugis historical record keeping. The paper sets out to explain why genealogies were first written down, what purpose they served, and why they were repeatedly added to and copied. It argues that written genealogies had no function as practical documents. Instead, they owed their existence directly to the development of writing around 1400 CE, and to the status that their possession conferred on their owners. The article sets out what historians can learn from genealogies of South Sulawesi prior to the arrival of the first Western visitors. It draws attention to a three-generation myth of origin similar to that found in the Malay <em>Hikayat Banjar<\/em>, and argues that this myth was central to agricultural fertility, and the right to rule.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Download<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Art.-6-IJAPS-12Supp.-1-2016-119-141.pdf\">Download PDF<\/a>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3417\" src=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"pdf\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IJAPS-12_Supp1-6.epub\">Download EPUB<\/a>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3443\" src=\"http:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/epub.png\" alt=\"epub\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To cite this article: Caldwell, I. and Wellen, K. 2016. Family matters: Bugis genealogies and their contribution to Austronesian studies. In Orality, writing and history: The literature of the Bugis and Makasar of South Sulawesi, ed. Druce, S. C. International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies 12 (Supp. 1): 119\u2013141, http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.21315\/ijaps2016.12.s1.6 Abstract Early Bugis written sources &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ijaps.usm.my\/?page_id=3426\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Family Matters: Bugis Genealogies and Their Contribution to Austronesian Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Caldwell, I. and Wellen, K. 2016. 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