- Title
- The Makassar Annals
- Original language
- English
- Author(s)
- Illustrator(s)
- Publisher
- KITLV Press
- ISBN
- 9067183660
- Publication date
- November 30, 2011
- Subjects
- Makassar history
- Find Book
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctt1w8h1bt
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Description(s)
Beginning in the 1630s, a series of annalists at the main courts of Makassar began keeping records with dated entries that recorded a wide variety of specific historical information about a wide variety of topics, including the births and deaths of notable individuals, the actions of rulers, the spread of Islam, trade and diplomacy, the built environment, ritual activity, warfare, internal political struggles, social and kinship relations, eclipses and comets, and more. These Lontaraq bilang were a clear departure in form and function from the genealogically-structured chronicles being composed about the ruling families of Gowa and Talloq in the same era.
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