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The Bahnar
The Bahnar are the people of Kon Tum and eastern Gia Lai, with a wing that spills over the Annamite crest into the hills of Bình Định. They are the counterweight to the Rhade and the Jarai in any honest account of who we are: they speak a Mon-Khmer language, not an Austronesian one; they count descent through both parents rather than through wom...
The Sedang (Xơ Đăng)
The Sedang hold the high northern end of the plateau — the ridges above Kon Tum, the country of Dak To and Tu Mo Rong, and the shoulders of Ngoc Linh, the highest mountain in the southern Annamites. They are the people who smelted iron and sold lances and sabers to buy salt; whose language has one of the largest vowel systems ever described in a...
Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age
A Dega child was born beside the hearth in some of our peoples and in the forest in others, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders remarked on in every village they visited but one. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands,...
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