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  Alor Island | Alor Diving Information | Diving ALor | Kepa Island | Diving Alor Kecil | Kalabahi | Liveaboard Alor | ...
Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
In addition, Alorese (Bahasa Alor; ISO 693-3: aol) is a Malayo-Polynesian language which is spoken along the coast of the western and southern Bird's Head of Alor Island and in places on surrounding islands.
Transport to Alor during the wet season is sometimes disrupted due to high winds and large waves.
www.lombokmarine.com /alor-island.htm   (677 words)

  
  Alor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, and Flores.
To the east of the island across the Ombai Strait lie the islands of Wetar and Atauro, the latter belonging to East Timor.
In addition, Alorese (Bahasa Alor; ISO 693-3: aol) is a Malayo-Polynesian language which is spoken along the coast of the western and southern Bird's Head of Alor Island and in places on surrounding islands.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alor   (585 words)

  
 Wikipedia: Alor
Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the chain of islands that runs through southern Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Java, Bali, Lombok, Sumbawa, Komodo, Flores Solor and Lomblen.
Politically the Alor archipelago forms its own Kabupaten or district, in the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur.
Aside from the two languages Alor / Alorese and Kalabahi Malay, which are both Austronesian languages, all of the languages spoken on the island of Alor are Papuan languages otherwise known as non-Austronesian languages.
www.factbook.org /wikipedia/en/a/al/alor.html   (340 words)

  
 indahnesia.com - Lembata & Alor - Island of traditions and kettledrums - Discover Indonesia Online
Alor and the sisterisland Pantar in the west, offer white beaches, and great diving and snorkling facilities.
On Alor, the Suku Abui tribe is the most traditional; on Pantar the Suku Kaera maintained the ancestral tradition.
The lingual isolation of the Alorese is maybe caused by the roughness of the inlands and the widespread headhunting in the past.
indahnesia.com /indonesia/LEMALO/alor.php   (1653 words)

  
 Alor Indonesia Southeast Asia - Cruise Reivews.com
The small island of Alor is situated east of Flores and is part of the volcanic belt which stretches from Sumatra, Java and Bali to the east of the Indonesian archipelago.
Alor is an island with a rocky, harsh landscape.
Alor is well off the normal tourist routes, mainly because it is difficult to reach the island.
www.cruise-reviews.com /port_info/port_detail.asp?fPortID=32   (650 words)

  
 Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located...
"Alor" is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the chain of islands that runs through southern Indonesia Indonesia, which from the west include such islands as Java Java, Bali Bali, Lombok Lombok, Sumbawa Sumbawa, Komodo Komodo, Flores Flores Solor Solor and Lomblen Lomblen.
Transport to Alor during the wet season wet season is sometimes disrupted due to high winds and large waves.
Aside from the two languages Alor / Alorese Alor / Alorese and Kalabahi Malay Kalabahi Malay, which are both Austronesian Austronesian languages, all of the languages spoken on the island of Alor are Papuan languages Papuan languages otherwise known as non-Austronesian languages non-Austronesian languages.
www.biodatabase.de /Alor   (430 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for Indonesia (Nusa Tenggara)
Central and western Alor in the Lesser Sundas.
Adonara Lembata (except the Kedang area) and in enclaves on the northern coast of Pantar, northwest Alor, and surrounding islands.
Alor Island, east coast around Kolana, southeast coast at Pietoko and Pureman, 2 enclaves on north central north coast.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=IDN   (2302 words)

  
 About Alor and Pantar
Alor is the largest island in the Alor archipelago located at the eastern-most end of the chain of islands that runs through southern Indonesia, lying just north of the island of Timor.
Aside from the two languages Alorese and Kalabahi Malay, which are both Austronesian languages, all of the languages spoken on the island of Alor are Papuan languages otherwise known as non-Austronesian languages.
The province of Nusa Tenggara Timur is one of the poorest in Indonesia, with poverty being commonplace in the Alor archipelago.
www.let.leidenuniv.nl /aapp/alor.html   (663 words)

  
 Ethnologue: Indonesia, Nusa Tenggara
Alor Island, north of Aluben, between Abui and Kelong languages.
Alor Island, east and southeast coasts around Kolana and Silopa, 2 enclaves on north central and northeast coasts.
Alor Island, south coast around Batuiolong and 2 enclaves to the west.
www.christusrex.org /www3/ethno/Indn.html   (2258 words)

  
 alor
The small island of Alor is situated east of Flores and is part of the volcanic belt which stretches from Sumatra, Java and Bali to the east of the Indonesian archipelago.
The strait between Pantar and Alor is acting like a gigantic jet propelling waters from the Flores Sea in the north to the Savu Sea in the south.
Althought diving in alor is also possible from kalabahi, I think that with a liveabord is the best thing to get to see all the dive spots, expecially night dives.
www.geocities.com /emozioniblu/alor.html   (400 words)

  
 JAKWEB.COM | IndonesiaONE.Net > East Nusatenggara > Languages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Central and western Alor in the Lesser Sundas.
The Retta variety on south Pura is thought to be a separate language by 2 Alorese.
Alor Island, east central, between Abui and Tanglapui.
www.jakweb.com /id/ntt/language/language1_1.htm   (434 words)

  
 Missionaries: Indonesia
That same day we were hiking up and down steep mountain slopes in Alor, an island two thousand miles to the east, visiting congregations struck by the only earthquake we knew about at the time, namely the one that shook Alor, and hard (7.2 RS), in mid-November.
The Alor quake, pale in comparison to the one west of Aceh, was nevertheless disastrous: 6,000 homes destroyed, 400 churches and mosques in ruins, 200 wounded and 33 dead.
(An Alorese friend described it well: “You walk with your knees hitting your chin.”) By noon we had reached the hilltop community of Fosing on the border between South Central and East Alor presbyteries where we were warmly received by about 100 members of the congregation.
www.globalministries.org /missionaries/sa5-l17.htm   (1014 words)

  
 Diving in Alor, Indonesia
The small island of Alor in Indonesia is situated east of Flores and is part of the volcanic belt which stretches from Sumatra, Java and Bali to the east of the Indonesian archipelago.
In the meantime there is a new dive resort, Alor Divers, on the island of Pantar which also offers diving in comfortable bungalows on the beach.
During four visits in Alor in 1996, 1997, 2005 and 2006 we dove most of the 30 or more divesites in the area and were impressed by the outstanding biodiversity under water.
www.bodeweb.de /alorengl.htm   (1140 words)

  
 Alorese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Alorese live on the mountainous interiors of Alor and Panta.
The Alorese have been studied by Cora Du Bois, an anthropologist studying the relationship between culture and personality.
One of her most famous field studies was her two-year research project where she lived in Alor studying the culture and personality structure of the Alorese.
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/oldworld/asia/alorese.html   (84 words)

  
 La petite kepa - Pulau Alor
The Alor islands are surrounded by pristine blue waters, reputedly offering some of the wolrd’s most accessible reefs, drop-offs, caves and valleys, full of brightly colored corals, as well as a rich invertebrate and pelagic fish life, with hundreds of species of fish.
A lot of villages on Alor still follow a traditional life-style, in these villages most houses are tree-tiered and thatch covered.
The traditional dance, the lego-lego, is the heart and soul of Alorese society.
www.la-petite-kepa.com /pulau_alor.html   (279 words)

  
 Cora Du Bois   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Following her research in Asia, she stated her findings as, "Cultural anthropology is concerned with man as a social and psychological phenomenon, and attempts to analyze the forces operative on him in his total environment." (Du Bois, 1959.pp.9).
She spent two years living in Alor, now part of Indonesia, where she closely studied the culture of the Alorese, focusing mainly on their personality structure (Peabody Museum, 1998).
She then used this research to compare the culture and personality behaviors of the Alorese to those in the United States and, although her work was cut short by World War II, she made significant progress in the field of ethnoanthropology (Peabody Museum, 1998).
www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/abcde/dubois_cora.html   (302 words)

  
 Languages of Alor and Pantar
Bahasa Alor is an Austronesian language spoken by communities living along the coasts of Alor Kecil (Alor"s Bird"s Head), on Ternate island, as well as in Kalabahi.
It is reported that Bahasa Alor is related to Lamaholot in Flores, but to what extent this is indeed the case is a question addressed in the present research.
Klon is a non-Austronesian language spoken in the sub-district of South-West Alor (Kecamatan Alor Barat Daya).
www.let.leidenuniv.nl /aapp/languages.html   (976 words)

  
 Dettagli dell'articolo
In this paper the notion of ethnicity is discussed; in particular the problem of its theoretical boundaries and the levels and contexts it may apply to.
The notion of ethnicity (or rather “microethnicity”) may seemingly be applied to the Alorese context.
As a matter of fact this concept is a useful label for this kind of social dynamics, but the author questions if it is necessary to elaborate the analytical model applied to the case discussed here.
www.mulino.it /rivisteweb/scheda_articolo.php?id_articolo=2464   (193 words)

  
 Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
With her fellowship, Du Bois returned to the east coast, spending six months at what was then the Boston Psychopathic Hospital, now the Murray Psychological Clinic, and six months with Abram Kardiner at the New York Psychoanalytic Society.
In keeping with her focus on psychological anthropology, Du Bois administered Roscharch tests to the Alorese in the hopes of using these data to make systematic comparisons between cultures.
Her research was designed to probe a basic Alorese personality structure, which, she believed, could be correlated with specific cultural institutions.
www.peabody.harvard.edu /maria/bois.html   (605 words)

  
 ALOR DIVE Guestbook 2006
Alor is one of the world best dive spots concerning the diversity of corals and fish.
Alor ist sehr ursprünglich und kaum vom Tourismus befallen.
Wer abenteuerlustig ist und Wert auf anspruchvolles Tauchen legt und dabei auch mal auf den Komfort einer 5- Sterne Anlage verzichten kann, ist bei Alor- Dive goldrichtig.
www.bdinet.de /gb_06_en.html   (1250 words)

  
 Alor Island - Dinas Pariwisata Kabupaten Alor - Profile
ALOR HAVE VERY POTENTIAL NATURAL RESOURCES TO GROW ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURE COMMODITY CROP PEOPLE WHICH GROW VERY FERTILE WITH RESULT OF PROMISING IS VANILLI IN COUNTRYSIDE OF APUI, TUNGMA, VABAILU DISTRICT OF ALOR SOUTH.
AS WELL AS ABOVE ALL AND REPRESENT AN MIRACLE OF REGENCY OF ALOR IS GARDEN UNDER SEA WHICH REPRESENT TO BE RESPECTED TO 3 IN ALL THE WORLD.
In addition, Alorese (Bahasa Alor) is a Malayo-Polynesian language which is spoken along the coast of the western and southern Bird's Head of Alor Island and in places on surrounding islands.
alorisland.com /index.php?categoryid=7   (495 words)

  
 String figure artefacts
I wish to thank Patricia Kervick, Associate Archivist, for supplying details of the photographs from Liberia (in Dec 2002) and (in Dec 2005) for supplying updated information on photographs from the Belgian Congo and for details of the notes by Daniel Sutherland Davidson.
I am also greatly indebted to Dr. Irene Good who contacted me with details of the Cora Du Bois collection from Alor Island: this was an exciting find from the Peabody Museum as it represents the first report of string figures from the Lesser Sundas Islands.
Collected by Dr. Cora Du Bois from Kalabahi, Alor Island, on the 18th of October, 1938.
website.lineone.net /~m.p/sf/Archive-PMAE.html   (711 words)

  
 Alor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The four are believed to be part of a syndicate accepting bets from Alor Star, the east coast and southern Thailand.
Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid gave these councils, which included Alor Star City Council, until end of this month to submit the reports.
Alor Gajah: More Than An Elephant's TaleBernama, Malaysia - Aug 14, 2006MELAKA, Aug 15 (Bernama) -- Alor Gajah in Melaka is a district synonymous with the legacy of Naning warrior, Datuk Dol Said, who led a rebellion against the...
www.33beat.com /Alor.html   (612 words)

  
 Hausarbeiten.de: Health and Development in Eastern Indonesia: rhetoric in the shaping of discourses - Doktorarbeit / ...
It must be said, that at the time of the field work, I was gathering information for the GTZ and thus was bound to an institutional framework and an agenda that had been set out.
Clients choose their healers and express doubt or dissatisfaction when they have the feeling that their opinion is left out in the negotiation of illness and curing.
If they cannot detect reasons for the illness, they will send the patient to me. If there is fl magic there is no scientific reason, they call me. There was a woman who came to the hospital, she was vomiting blood and bleeding from the nose.
www.hausarbeiten.de /faecher/hausarbeit/etn/25191.html   (12579 words)

  
 Cultural Portraits of Indonesia
Dressed in hand-woven ikat cloth gathered by a wide belt of woven bark, a male soloist sings each verse of a traditional song; the refrain is echoed by the other dancers.
Alorese women wear ikat sarongs, beaded sashes and bronze ankle bracelets; small woven rattan bags are used like purses.
Moko, small bronze ceremonial drums belonging to the ancient Dongson Culture of North Vietnam, were incorporated into the culture of Alor in ancient times.
www.culturalportraits.com /galleryindonesia/GNT004.html   (134 words)

  
 search.com - Alor
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 ALOR DIVE Gästebuch 2006
I just want to say that I went to Alor with the exact desire to go for my first ever dive experience.
The next time that I go back to Indonesia, Alor and Alor Dive will be my first stop.
We have made the trip with two dives in Alor on 1-8-2006.
www.bdinet.de /gb_06_de.html   (1250 words)

  
 Diving & Accommodation in the heart of Alor archipelago
Diving and Accommodation in the heart of Alor archipelago
Diving facilities and Accommodation in the heart of Alor archipelago,
the alorese traditional life style and the unspoiled nature
www.la-petite-kepa.com   (59 words)

  
 GUS
DuBois (1944, [1960, I:p69-70])[1] on the Alorese: “The masturbation that little boys pursue so casually and freely during early childhood seems to disappear after the acquisition of a loincloth.
[1] Du Bois, C. The People of Alor: A Social-Psychological Study of an
[2] Du Bois, C. (1945) The Alorese, in Kardiner, A.
www2.rz.hu-berlin.de /sexology/GESUND/ARCHIV/GUS/ALORESE.HTM   (280 words)

  
 200 E. Timor refugee families eat forest cassava
If not, I will lead a demonstration to the NTT Governor's office," threatened Tavares.
From Kalabahi it was reported 7 Alorese refugee families (families who once transmigrated to Poso, Central Sulawesi but have fled back to Alor since fighting broke out in Poso), have complained of food shortages because they have received no government aid since they arrived in Alor on Friday (21/7).
Head of the Alor Social Agency, Julius Mau, has promised he'll coordinate with the respective parties to give aid.
www.etan.org /et2000c/august/1-5/03200.htm   (391 words)

  
 Big Blue Planet - Flores - Alor dive location holiday information for SCUBA divers who want to go diving
Their are proud to introduce their flagship M/Y Anggun which will visit between June and October the best divesites between Komodo and Flores up to Alor.
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