 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.
- ^ 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