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The Jarai resisted and defeated the French in 1894, but later were subdued when the French came back in 1897 with more soldiers. [11] In the next two decades, the French government made heavy efforts to secure the highlands and trust from the indigenous peoples. Despite that, the Montagnard tribes fiercely fought back.
Jarai people or Dega (Vietnamese: Người Gia Rai, Gia Rai, or Gia-rai; Khmer: ចារ៉ាយ, Charay or Khmer: ជ្រាយ, Chreay) are an Austronesian indigenous people and ethnic group native to Vietnam's Central Highlands (Gia Lai and Kon Tum Provinces, with smaller populations in Đắk Lắk Province), as well as in the Cambodian northeast Province of Ratanakiri.
The Jarai word Pơtao were often translated as "king" but were never real kings, actually they were ritual masters of fire, water and wind. [ 1 ] According to research, these tribes located in the valley of Ayun and Ba River, modern day Ayun Pa (a district in Gia Lai Province ) and Ea Súp (a district in Đắk Lắk Province ).
An abandoned graveyard, also known as an abandoned cemetery, is a graveyard that is no longer maintained. [1] Graveyards may be abandoned for various reasons. [ 2 ] Some reasons for abandonment of cemeteries include such phenomena as financial difficulty, natural disaster, unpleasant reputation and/or accessibility.
According to 1978 population figures, there were 10,000 Jarai and 15,000 E De in Cambodia in the late 1970s. They live in longhouses containing several compartments occupied by matrilineally linked nuclear families. There may be twenty to sixty longhouses in one village. The Rade and Jarai cultivate dry-field rice and secondary crops such as maize.
Zoroastrian Towers Of Silence are examples of excarnation.. In archaeology and anthropology, the term excarnation (also known as defleshing) refers to the practice of removing the flesh and organs of the dead before burial.
In Jarai dialects spoken in Cambodia, the "(C)" in the cluster "C(C)" can also be the voiced velar fricative /ɣ/, a phoneme used by the Jarai in Cambodia, but not attested in Vietnam. The vowel of the first syllable in disyllabic words is most often the mid-central unrounded vowel , /ə/ , unless the initial consonant is the glottal stop /ʔ/ .
The k'ni is a bowed chordophone which uses the musician's palate as a resonator which enables the instrument to imitate certain qualities found in vocal music. [8] In Ratanakiri, the fretboard is composed of four frets which in Tampuan language are referred to as thaᴐ, literally meaning female cleavage whereas the Jarai of Vietnam use six fingerboards - made with large thorns harvested from ...