Alifuru people

Alfur
**Alifuru / Alfuros / Alfures / Alifuru / Horaforas**
	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) is a broad term historically used during the Portuguese seaborne empire to describe non-Muslim and non-Christian indigenous peoples living in remote, inland regions of the eastern portion of Maritime Southeast Asia.^[1] The term was primarily associated with communities 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

[1] 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

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