William Davies, professor of linguistics in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received a $52,000 grant from the Toyota Foundation to record, digitize and make available online the folk tales of the Madurese, an ethnic group in Indonesia.
(Media-Newswire.com) - William Davies, professor of linguistics in the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, received a $52,000 grant from the Toyota Foundation to record, digitize and make available online the folk tales of the Madurese, an ethnic group in Indonesia.
With a population of 7.8 million, the Madurese are the third-largest ethnic group in Indonesia. Currently there is almost no documentation of Madurese narratives.
The multimedia archive will be presented in Madurese, English and Indonesian. The collection will initially consist of about 40 stories, with the goal of adding more in the future. It will be housed within the UI Digital Library.
The stories provide scholars with insight into the Madurese language, society and culture, and the manner in which Islam was introduced on the island and incorporated into the existing belief system. The project will also provide a resource to the Madurese, a minority population with a history of oppression.
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