Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar 9780824863449

In this study of early modern Makassar in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, William Cummings traces the social, c

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Making Blood White: Historical Transformations in Early Modern Makassar
 9780824863449

Table of contents :
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
A NOTE ON MAKASSARESE LANGUAGE AND TRANSLATION
Introduction Making a History of Early Modern Makassar
Part I. History-Making
1. Early Modern Makassar and Its Contexts
2. Culture and History-Making
3 .Transformations in Makassarese Perceptions of the Past
Part II. Making History
4. Historical Literacy and Social Hierarchicalization
5 . Historical Literacy and Gowa as the Center of Makassar
6 . Historical Literacy and Makassarese Culture
Conclusion The Force of History
APPENDIX EARLY MODERN RULERS OF GOWA AND TALLOQ
NOTES
GLOSSARY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

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