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Mambai people
Mambae / Manbae / Maubere

Orchestra in front of a church in Suco Ducurai,Letefoho Subdistrict,Ermera District,Timor Leste.
Total population
195.778 (2015)[1]
Regions with significant populations
East Timor (Dili District)
Languages
Mambai language,Tetum,Portuguese
Religion
Catholic (predominantly), traditional beliefs
Related ethnic groups
Kemak people,Melanesians,Austronesians

TheMambai (Mambae,Manbae) people are the second largest ethnic group after the Tetum Dili people inEast Timor. Originally, they were known as theMaubere by the Portuguese.Maubere orMau Bere is a widespread male first name among the Mambai people.^[2]

The Mambai number about 80,000^[3] from the interior ofDili District to the south coast of the territory, especially in the districts ofAinaro andManufahi. Its principal centers areErmera,Aileu,Remexio Administrative Post,Turiscai,Maubisse,Ainaro andSame, East Timor. Among the East Timorese exiles in Australia, the Mambai people are one of the main groups.

TheMambai language belongs to theCentral–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages of theTimoric languages branch. It is the second most common mother tongue inEast Timor with 195,778 speakers.^[4]

Circular houses with conical roofs are typical dwellings,^[5] and the Mambai cultivatemaize,rice, androot vegetables.^[3]

Ethnically Mambai politicians includeFrancisco Xavier do Amaral,^[6]Manuel Tilman,^[7]Lúcia Lobato,^[8] andFernando de Araújo.^[8]

• 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

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