Alifuru people

Alfur
Alifuru / Alfuros / Alfures / Alifuru / Horaforas
Alfur people, most likely Alune people, in the mountains of Seram.
Regions with significant populations
Melanesia (Eastern Indonesia), Micronesia
Religion
Animism, Islam, Christianity
Related ethnic groups
Moluccans, Melanesians

Alfur, Alfurs, Alfuros, Alfures, Aliforoes, Alifuru or Horaforas (in Dutch, Alfoeren) people is a broad term recorded at the time of the Portuguese seaborne empire to refer all the non-Muslim, non-Christian peoples living in inaccessible areas of the interior in the eastern portion of Maritime Southeast Asia,[1] mainly from the Arafura Sea area.

  1. ^ Chris Ballard: 'Oceanic Negroes': British anthropology of Papuans, 1820–1869. In: Bronwen Phyllis Douglas, Chris Ballard (Hrsg.): Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940. ANU E Press, Canberra 2008, page 184

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