Mambai people

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Mambai people
Mambae / Manbae / Maubere

Austronesians

The Mambai (Mambae, Manbae) people are the second largest ethnic group after the Tetum Dili people in East Timor. Originally, they were known as the Maubere by the Portuguese. Maubere or Mau Bere is a widespread male first name among the Mambai people.^[2]

Settlement area

The Mambai number about 80,000

Culture

The Mambai language belongs to the Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages of the Timoric languages branch. It is the second most common mother tongue in East Timor with 195,778 speakers.^[4]

Circular houses with conical roofs are typical dwellings,

Ethnically Mambai politicians include Francisco Xavier do Amaral,^[6] Manuel Tilman,^[7] Lúcia Lobato,^[8] and Fernando de Araújo.^[8]

References

Further reading

• Elizabeth Gilbert Traube, Ritual exchange among the Mambai of East Timor: gifts of life and death, Harvard University Press, 1977.
• Elizabeth Gilbert Traube, Cosmology and Social Life: ritual exchange among the Mambai of East Timor, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
• Elizabeth Gilbert Traube (1980), "Affines and the dead: Mambai rituals of alliance", Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 136: 90–115,
  ISSN 0006-2294

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