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Montagnard or minority groups - Xtieng
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Derivative:
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Xtieng |
Population:
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More than 50,000 people. |
Locality:
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he Xtieng live in four northern districts of Song Be Province and in
Dong Nai and Tay Ninh Provinces. |
Customs:
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The Xtieng live a sedentary lifestyle. Each family builds
its own house. Each village is led by an elderly man who must be experienced in
the affairs of the community, dynamic, and trusted by the villagers. The Xtieng
can marry outside their lineage. After the wedding, the bride comes to live in
her husband's house. The Xtieng believe in animism and the mystical powers of
thunder, lightning bolts, the heavens, and the earth. The Xtieng calculate their
age according to the number of harvests that they have gathered. |
Culture:
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The Xtieng language belongs to the Mon-Khmer Group. The Xtieng enjoy
music and popular musical instruments, such as the six-patterned gong set. These
gongs are made of bamboo panpipes. |
Dress:
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Xtieng women wear skirts and the men wear loincloths. In winter, they
cover themselves in blankets. The women wear their hair long and tie it in a bun
at the back of their heads. They usually wear ivory earrings pierced into their
earlobes, or tattoo their faces and body with simple motifs. |
Economy:
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The Xtieng cultivate rice in submerged fields and have used oxen and
buffaloes as draught animals for a long time. |
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