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The Bahnar
The Bahnar live around Kon Tum and east of Pleiku, and in the mountains running down toward the coast of Bình Định. They speak a Mon-Khmer language, not a Chamic one; they do not have the matrilineal clans of their Jarai and Rhade neighbors; and their villages are marked by the communal house with its high, sweeping roof. Kon Tum’s Catholic chur...
Growing up Dega: birth, naming and coming of age
A Dega child was usually born beside the family hearth, named by the ancestors, given a false name to hide it from the spirits, and raised with a freedom that outsiders often remarked on. This page sets out what the older written sources record about growing up in the highlands, people by people, and what changed for the children who grew up in...
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