The Mambai (Mambae, Manbae) people are the second largest ethnic group after the Tetum Dili people in East Timor. Originally, they were known as the Maubere by the Portuguese. Maubere or Mau Bere is a widespread male first name among the Mambai people.[2]
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^Elizabeth G. Traube (2011). Andrew McWilliam & Elizabeth G. Traube (ed.). Land and Life in Timor-Leste: Ethnographic Essays. ANU E Press. p. 119. ISBN 978-19-218-6260-1.
^ a bClifford Sather and James J. Fox (eds), Origins, Ancestry and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian Ethnography, ANU E Press, 2006, Chapter 7.
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^International Crisis Group, Asia Briefing N°65, 13 June 2007 Archived 14 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^ a bEast Timor Legal Information Site, 2007 Archived 2011-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
Elizabeth Gilbert Traube, Ritual exchange among the Mambai of East Timor: gifts of life and death, Harvard University Press, 1977.
Elizabeth Gilbert Traube, Cosmology and Social Life: ritual exchange among the Mambai of East Timor, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Elizabeth Gilbert Traube (1980), "Affines and the dead: Mambai rituals of alliance", Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, 136: 90–115, doi:10.1163/22134379-90003539, ISSN 0006-2294