Jalia Kaibarta (or Jaliya Kaibartta, or: Jāliya Kaibbarta, possibly also: Jalia Kaibartya) is a community comprising people of low ritual status, fishermen, who later acquired respectable caste identities within the larger Hindu fold, helped by their commercial prosperity and Vaishnavite affiliations, through Sanskritisation. They are traditionally engaged in the occupation Read more…
Urak Lawoi are an Aboriginal Malay people residing on the islands of Phuket, Phi Phi, Jum, Lanta, Bulon and on Lipe and Adang, in the Adang Archipelago, off the western coast of Thailand. They are known by various names, including Orak Lawoi’, Lawta, Chao Tha Le, Chao Nam, and Lawoi. Read more…
The Tankas or boat people are a sinicised ethnic group in Southern China who have traditionally lived on junks in coastal parts of Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Shanghai, Zhejiang and along the Yangtze river, as well as Hong Kong, and Macau. The boat people are referred to with other different Read more…
The Orang Laut are several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands. The Orang Laut are commonly identified as the Orang Seletar from the Straits of Johor, but the term may also refer to any Malayic-speaking people living on coastal islands, including Read more…
The Moken (also Mawken or Morgan; lit. ’sea people’) are an Austronesian people of the Mergui Archipelago, a group of approximately 800 islands claimed by both Myanmar and Thailand. Most of the 2,000 to 3,000 Moken live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle heavily based on the sea, though this is increasingly under Read more…
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This section of OceanWaveSail is dedicated to the The People of the Sea. It is a small compendium of nomadic tribes living off and on the sea. It will be improved over time, adding original parts that we hope you will find interesting. It is mostly about their way of Read more…
The term “Sama-Bajau” refers to a number of Austronesian ethnic groups in Maritime Southeast Asia. The phrase describes a group of related individuals who are commonly known as Sama or Samah (formally A’a Sama, “Sama people”) or as Bajau, occasionally written Badjao, Bajaw, Badjau, Badjaw, Bajo, or Bayao. They commonly Read more…
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