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:: Mozaik Dayak; Keberagaman Subsuku dan Bahasa Dayak di Kalimantan Barat (Mosaic Dayak; Diversity of Dayak Sub-tribes and Language in West Kalimantan)

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ditor : John Bamba, Writer : Sujarni Alloy, Albertus, Chatarina Pancer Istiyani

This is the biggest work about Dayak that done by Institut Dayakologi. The book with the cover of the motive of the red colour golden is stressed if the Dayak ethnic group is the original ethnic group that is big in Kalimantan Island with the complex of diversity level. Their relation with nature and history has formed its complexity. There was the river, the mountain, trees, as well as historic incidents through to politics that evidently took part in forming and determining the dynamic identity that they got. This book was printed by the luxurious edition, was results of investigation for almost one decade (10 years) about the identity of the Dayak people concerning sub-tribes and language was inspected from their method named themselves. And based on the approach as explained by the writers of this book, in West Kalimantan was found 151 sub-tribes of Dayak, 100 sub of the sub-tribes and 168 Dayak languages. A phenomenal research, then amazed the linguists from various countries of the world against the book that also provided by map of diversity of sub-tribes and language. According to Prof. Dr. James T. Collins, this book can be used as the baseline for the following researches. While Dr. Yusriadi mentioned, this book is the biggest opus in 21st century about Dayak. A book that ought to be read by the researchers, the instigator of the culture, as well as the policy makers.

Size: 18 cm x 24 cm; XXVIII + 351 pages
First Edition, March 2008
Price : Rp. 175.000,-