eHRAF World Cultures

Explore search results through word clouds.

Compare cultures overlayed on a map.

Drill down through the search results by region and culture.

Sort Results By

Display Use Fors

The Alorese live on the Island of Alor, in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Alor is noted as an area of tremendous cultural and linguistic diversity. Alorese estimate between 48 and 60 mutually unintelligible languages are spoken on Alor. These languages are Austronesian. In addition to &#x22;native&#x22; languages, many of the inhabitants speak Bahasa Indonesia, the national language of Indonesia.  The people in the highland live in small villages, practice Christianity, and their major subsistence activity is agriculture. The people on the coast tend to be Muslim.

Culture summary

The people of Alor

Attitudes toward food and hunger in Alor

How they pay their debts

Symbolic organization of space and social identity in Alor

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle America and the Caribbean

Middle East

New World

North America

Oceania

South America

Log In

Author	Title	Publication Date
Adams, Kathleen M.	Culture summary	2002
Du Bois, Cora Alice	The people of Alor	1944
Du Bois, Cora Alice	Attitudes toward food and hunger in Alor	1941
Du Bois, Cora Alice	How they pay their debts	1940
Scarduelli, Pietro	Symbolic organization of space and social identity in Alor	1991

Alorese

Your privacy