Sea nomads
Sea nomads refer to a number of different peoples living in the Southeast Asian island world. Colloquially, they are ( pejorative ) and Sea Gypsies (Engl. Sea Gypsies called). In Thai, the sea nomads are called Chao Leh ( ชาวเล - literally people of the sea ) and in Burmese they are called Selung (also Selon ). Their way of life is semi-nomadic. During the monsoons they stay on the islands of the Andaman Sea , in the Strait of Malacca to the South China Sea . In the rest of the year they travel from island to island in boats and live mainly from catching fish and seafood.
The largest of these peoples are the Bajau . You are stateless, have no ID, no birth certificate and no nationality. These include the Bugis , the Orang Laut including the Urak Lawoi , the Moken and Moklen and the Sakai (also Maniq ).
literature
- Clifford Sather: The Bajau Laut - Adaption, History, And Fate In A Maritime Fishing Society Of South-Eastern Sabah , Oxford University Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1997, ISBN 983-56-0015-5
- Frank M. LeBar (Ed.): Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, Volume 1: Indonesia, Andaman Islands, and Madagascar ; Human Relations Area Files Press, New Haven, 1972
- Frank M. LeBar (Ed.): Ethnic Groups of Insular Southeast Asia, Volume 2: Philippines and Formosa ; Human Relations Area Files Press, New Haven, 1972
Individual evidence
- ↑ CLIFFORD, page 321
- ↑ Malay Archipelago: In the World of Sea Nomads. In: https://www.daserste.de . April 15, 2018. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Urak Lawoi of the Adang Archipelago, by Dr. Supin Wongbusarakum (Eng.)
- ^ Hajek John: Unraveling Lowland Semang . In: Oceanic Linguistics . tape 35 , no. 1 , June 1996, p. 138-141 , JSTOR : 3623034 .