"""The MA is one of six groups of indigenous people who belong to the Mon - Khmer language group in the south region of the Central Highlands, and is one of the 21 ethnic groups who belong to this language group in Vietnam. They primarily reside in the Dong Nai River basin, located in the southwestern part of Lam Dong Province and northern part of Dong Nai Province. In the Ma language, the river is called Da Dang, and according to the Ma folk legends, the place was one known as the MA principality. The MA people cultivate upland rice and worship the Rice Mother, but they continue to re-enact the custom of sacrificing buffaloes as a mean of recalling the days when they hunted for big animals to survive. Their typical dwelling is a long house on stilts, which retains architectural traces of the caves where they used to live by means of the structure of the POONG ME (mother door). The Ma family structure follows the paternal line, but the practice of matriarchal relations still exists"". (From the Publishing House Foreword).

Content: 1 - Publishing House's words. 2 - Origin and population distribution. 3 - The villages & housing. 4 - Means of subsistence. 5 - Clothes, jewelry. 6 - Customs, festivals.