The Achehnese/Volume 1
THE ACHEHNESE
TUANKU MUHAMAT DAWŌT. PRETENDER TO THE SULTANATE 1878–1902.
SUBMITTED TO THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT JANUARY 1903.
THE ACHEHNESE
BY
Dr. C. SNOUCK HURGRONJE
Adviser for Native Affairs, Netherlands India,
TRANSLATED
BY
the late A. W. S. O'SULLIVAN
Assistant Colonial Secretary, Straits Settlements,
WITH AN INDEX
BY
R. J. WILKINSON
Inspector of Schools, Federated Malay States,
VOL. I.
Late E. J. BRILL
LEYDEN, 1906.
E. J. Brill, publisher and printers, Leyden
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VOLUME I.
Introduction. Pp. v–xxi.
Chapter I. Distribution of the people, forms of government and administration of justice; Pp. 1–193.
(1) Introduction; p. 1. (2) Elements of population; p. 16. (3) Dress, food, luxuries, dwellings, household equipment; p. 25. (4) Distribution of the people; clans and tribes; p. 44. (5) The Gampōng, its government and adats; p. 58. (6) The mukim and its administration; p. 80. (7) The ulèëbalangships and their constitution; p. 88. (8) The Rajas (Sultans) of Acheh; p. 120. (9) Rivals of the traditional authorities; political adventurers and representatives of religion; p. 151. Appendix; p. 190.
Chapter II. Achehnese Calendars, festivals and seasons. Agriculture, navigation and fishery. Laws relating to land and water; Pp. 194–294.
(1) The Achehno-Mohammedan divisions of time; p. 194. (2) Feasts and appointed times and seasons; p. 202. (3) The civil or Season Calendar; p. 245. (4) Agriculture, tenths and sugar-cane planting; p. 258. (5) Navigation and fisheries; p. 275. (6) Rights on land and water; p. 285.
Chapter III. Domestic life and law; Pp. 295–439.
(1) Proposal, betrothal and marriage contract; p. 329. (3) Early days of married life; polygamy and concubinage; financial relations of husband and wife; p. 356. (4) Divorce; p. 367. (5) Pregnancy and birth; early years of childhood; p. 371. (6) The parents as bringers-up of their children; p. 401. (7) Sicknesses; their origin and cure; p. 408. (8) Death and the disposal of the dead; p. 418. (9) Distribution of Effects; p. 434.
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