BIOGRAPHY
Aone van Engelenhoven obtained his PhD degree in linguistics in 1995 at Leiden University. His dissertation concerned a description of the Leti language spoken in Southwest Maluku, Indonesia. At present he is a university lecturer of Southeast Asian linguistics at his almamater where he is involved in the teaching at the Institute of Area Studies and the Centre of Linguistics.
He is the Representative for the Indonesian Association of Oral Traditions (Asosiasi Tradisi Lisan, ATL) in Europe. His research relates to several linguistic and anthropological-linguistic phenomena in insular Southeast Asia and the diaspora in the Netherlands. His oral traditions research focuses on the semiotics and mnemonics of oral storytelling and the relation between language and cognition, specifically the use of Indonesian/Malay and indigenous languages for the transfer of ritual knowledge.
His latest publication is Oral Traditions in Insular Southeast Asia: Lokaswara Nusantara,
(Cambridge Scholars Publ., Newcastle upon Tyne, 2024)