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Gongs and epics
Much of what the Dega know was never written down. It was played on gongs and sung through the night. In 2005 UNESCO recognized the gong culture of the Central Highlands as a masterpiece of the world’s intangible heritage. This page is about what that heritage is, and about the long epics that carry our history, our law and our idea of a hero.
Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
For thirteen years a French administrator named Léopold Sabatier governed Darlac on the principle that the land belonged to the Rhade and that outsiders should be kept off it. He set up a court that judged by Rhade law, a school that taught in Rhade, and on January 1, 1926, an oath-taking assembly of the chiefs. The same year he was removed, and...
The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the country around Buôn Ma Thuột. They speak a Chamic language, related to Cham and more distantly to Malay; they trace descent through women; and they gave the Dega movement many of its leaders, from Y Bham Enuol onward. This is one of a series of pages on the peoples of the highlands.
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