THE PREHISTORY OF THE AUSTRONESIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES - A VIEW FROM LANGUAGE
THE PREHISTORY OF THE AUSTRONESIAN-SPEAKING PEOPLES - A VIEW FROM LANGUAGE
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DOI：
10.1007/bf02221119
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发表时间：
1995-12-01
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2
通讯作者：
BLUST, R
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作者：
BLUST, R
在过去几个世纪欧洲殖民扩张之前，南岛语系的地理范围是地球上所有语系中最大的，包括在其领土上以前从未有人定居的地区。虽然主要分布在热带或亚热带环境中，但讲阿语的人表现出广泛的身体类型、物质文化和社会和政治组织类型。本文论述了语言比较有助于回答以下问题的方法：一个家园在哪里？早期物质文化、社会和政治组织的性质是什么？我们可以从早期的病理学中推断出什么呢？早期的演讲者如何看待精神世界？文章最后讨论了文化的丧失，许多例子可以从太平洋和与世隔绝的东南亚推断出来。
Prior to the European colonial expansions of the past several centuries the Austronesian (AN) language family had the greatest geographical extent of any on earth, including in its territory areas that had never previously been settled. Although predominantly distributed in a tropical or subtropical environment, AN-speaking peoples exhibit a wide range of physical types, material cultures, and types of social and political organization. This paper addresses ways in which linguistic comparison can contribute toward answering such questions as the following: Where was the AN homeland? What was the nature of early AN material culture, social and political organization? What can we infer about early AN pathology? How did early AN speakers view the spirit world? It concludes with a discussion of culture loss, many examples of which can be inferred both from the Pacific and from insular Southeast Asia.