Contact Set Mawng - Kunbarlang

by Ruth Singer

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been in contact overall?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What is the overall time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction?

1600-1800

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people practised exchange for?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in exchange?

1600-1800

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group peoples been forming families with each other for?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What’s the time frame of densest contact between Focus Group and Neighbour Group as far as family formation is concerned?

1600-1800

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been involved in the knowledge domain together for?

For at least the last few hundred years and probably over a thousand years.

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the knowledge domain?

1600-1800

I have decided to focus on this period, the pre-contact period before Mawng and Kunbarlang speakers had contact with people outside of Australia apart from those known as Macassans, who visited their land annually and came from the former port of Makassar in Indonesia. The associations between Mawng and Kunbarlang and areas of land were probably similar to what they are now.

How long have Focus Group people and Neighbour Group people worked together for?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the labour domain?

1600-1800

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people been in contact in the local community?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in the local community?

1600-1800

How long have Focus Group and Neighbour Group people traded for?

For at least the last few hundred years, more likely a thousand years.

What is the time frame when the largest number of people had the most opportunities for interaction in trade?

1600-1800

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