Campbell Macknight, Mukhlis Paeni and Muhlis Hadrawi (ed. & trans.), The Bugis Chronicle of Bone. Canberra, ANU Press, 2020. 153 p. ISBN9781760463571 (print); 9781760463588 (online from press.anu.edu.au)

Abstract

The modest community of scholars and students of Bugis-Makassar culture and history have much reason to be grateful to Campbell Macknight and his two Bugis colleagues. They have persevered over a half-century of other demands on the time of each of them, as well as changing expectations and conventions of Bugis scholarship, to bring this very difficult project to fruition during the fruitful retirement of the two initial collaborators, Macknight and Mukhlis. Campbell Macknight deserves specia...