The Tiwa community is one of the autochthonous communities of Northeast India. An important aspect of Tiwa culture is the erection of stone monuments during the celebration of Chongkhong Phuja. This ...ceremony is performed before the commencement of their yearly agricultural cycle which falls in late April and continues to early May. On this occasion, a menhir and table stone are erected by the head priest of the Tiwa village, who then invokes their village guardian deity to call for a better harvest as well as for the wellbeing of the villagers. This elaborate ceremony marks the beginning of the agricultural season for the year, following which the villagers commence their agricultural activities. This paper deals with the performance of Chongkhong Phuja and the associated living megalithic tradition among the Hill Tiwas residing in the Umswai Valley. It also documents the oral traditions associated with the origin of the megalithic tradition in the community. As most of the living megalithic traditions among the ethnic communities of Northeast India are either related to burial practices or commemorating the death of a person or an event, this Chongkhong Phuja represents a unique example of a megalithic tradition related to agricultural practice. Indirect evidence suggests the megalithic structures present at the ceremonial place of the Chongkhong Phuja in the Amsai village of the Umswai Valley have been continuously erected for the last thousand years. The paper also hypothesizes the shifting cultivation in the area to be as old as the practice of the megalithic tradition.
La présente étude aborde la notion de « changement » dans le cadre de la cité grecque de l’époque classique, mais du côté opposé, celui de la continuité historique. Pour ce faire, elle examine les ...mots et expressions désignant le passé ancestral d’un peuple : elle étudie les significations du terme
et des termes apparentés dans la littérature grecque des V
et IV
siècles (Hérodote, Thucydide, Xénophon, Aristophane, Aristote, orateurs attiques), présente le cadre politique dans lequel les générations qui vivent à l’époque classique font appel à leurs ancêtres et recherche, enfin, les éléments qui construisent l’identité de la cité classique. D’abord, il en ressort que les notions d’« ancestral » et de « traditionnel » sont floues et que leur connotation dépend des individus qui en font usage, ainsi que du moment historique dans lequel vivent les intéressés. Ensuite, il apparaît qu’elles sont le moyen qui permet aux Anciens d’exprimer leur réaction – positive ou négative – face aux transformations multiples que subissent les sociétés classiques.
More than just a book, Storytelling in Northern Zambia lets you watch videos of the storytellers while you read. Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in ...many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic groups in Zambia. The integration of newly digitalised audio and video recordings into the text enables the reader to encounter the storytellers themselves and hear their narratives as they were recounted during Robert Cancel’s research trips to Zambia. Robert Cancel's thorough critical interpretation, combined with these newly digitalised audio and video materials, makes Storytelling in Northern Zambia a much needed addition to the slender corpus of African folklore studies that deal with storytelling performance. Cancel threads his way between the complex demands of African fieldwork studies, folklore theory, narrative modes, reflexive description and simple documentation and succeeds in bringing to the reader a set of performers and their performances that are vivid, varied and instructive. He illustrates this living narrative tradition with a wide range of examples, and highlights the social status of narrators and the complex local identities that are at play. Cancel’s innovative study tells us not only about storytelling but sheds light on the study of oral literatures throughout Africa and beyond. Its innovative format, meanwhile, explores new directions in the integration of primary source material into scholarly texts. This book is part of our World Oral Literature Series in conjunction with the World Oral Literature Project.
The Bigovo complex is an architectural unit consisting of three buildings in the village of Bigovo on the Montenegrin coast. The buildings were designed by architects Vasilije Milunović, Jelena ...Ivanović Vojvodić and Verica Krstić. The architecture of the complex is an example of contextual functionalism. The buildings are organically unified with the terrain and vegetation, and their form and composition naturally develop from the environment. The authors have created a discreet modern interpretation of the traditional architecture of the area. The complex is open towards the sea, and the internal organization enables each room to have maximum openness.
This article discuss the existence of the Sedulang Setudung tradition in the last 20 years. The development of customs in culture over a long period cannot be seen from the perspective of other ...cultures; to survive, businesses must have their value system. This study examined the development of the Sedulang Setudung custom in Gelebak Dalam Village, Rambutan District, Banyuasin Regency, from 1999-2019. The method used in this study is the historical method. The Sedulang Setudung custom is one of the successful implementations of the existing value system until now. The philosophical values in every activity and element of this custom become a strong binding and meaning requirement so that the local community always respects it. The development of the Sedulang Setudung custom can be very consistent; since its inception, this custom has existed until today, and its existence is still a pride as a unifying village. The role of the village government and traditional institutions that are the driving force of this custom always ensures that this custom is carried out by its philosophy. Then the community is always enthusiastic about welcoming this custom on every big day of Islam. This harmonization forms a high sense of solidarity in preserving the Sedulang Setudung tradition as the legacy of its predecessors.Artikel ini membahas tentang keberadaan tradisi Sedulang Setudung dalam 20 tahun terakhir. Perkembangan adat dalam budaya dalam jangka waktu yang lama tidak dapat dilihat dari perspektif budaya lain; untuk bertahan hidup, bisnis harus memiliki sistem nilai mereka. Penelitian ini mengkaji tentang sejarah perkembangan adat Sedulang Setudung di Desa Gelebak Dalam, Kecamatan Rambutan, Kabupaten Banyuasin, dari tahun 1999-2019. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode sejarah. Adat Sedulang Setudung merupakan salah satu implementasi yang berhasil dari sistem nilai yang ada sampai sekarang. Nilai-nilai filosofis dalam setiap kegiatan dan unsur adat ini menjadi syarat pengikat dan makna yang kuat agar masyarakat setempat selalu menghormatinya. Perkembangan adat Sedulang Setudung bisa sangat konsisten; Sejak awal, adat ini telah ada hingga saat ini, dan keberadaannya masih menjadi kebanggaan sebagai pemersatu desa. Peran pemerintah desa dan lembaga adat yang menjadi penggerak adat ini selalu memastikan bahwa adat ini dijalankan sesuai dengan filosofinya. Kemudian masyarakat selalu antusias menyambut adat ini pada setiap hari besar Islam. Harmonisasi ini membentuk rasa solidaritas yang tinggi dalam melestarikan tradisi Sedulang Setudung sebagai warisan para pendahulunya.
Afro‐descendant oral traditions are powerful modes of political expression that disrupt anti‐black logics within Latin America's mestizaje. Scholarship on Afro‐Latin American anti‐racist mobilisation ...centres on large‐scale, collective action. Instead, in this article, I examine songs and décimas, central forms of Afro‐descendant cultural subjectivity. Drawing on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in La Guaira state, Venezuela, I show how oral traditions are place‐based forms of resistance against anti‐black racism. This research calls on scholars to attend to oral traditions and their geographies as a tool of anti‐racist political mobilisation.
The religion of Islam is a religion of mercy for the whole of nature. Islam is a religion that is godly Allah Almighty and has a messenger, or Prophet Muhammad SAW. Islam determines a law or fiqh in ...performing worship with 4 (four) foundations, namely: the Qur'an, Hadith, Ijma' and qiyas. Emotional readiness is a situation of a state to live well in a case that cannot be changed, but with the mental courage of oneself being able to change things that should be changed, and also the wisdom to appreciate a difference. According to the Islamic view, some of the causes of young marriage are to carry out the sunnah of the Prophet, to open the door of sustenance, to perfect religion, to gain peace, and to obtain offspring. The reasons for marrying young in Bathin III Ulu District are parental demands, challenging economic conditions, low education, association, environment, understanding of customs, youth regulations, number of siblings, guardian wishes, matchmaking, clerical directions, and educational authority.
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