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Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture
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Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture is an interdisciplinary journal that explores the history, politics, economics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology of world’s local culture. The journal brings together original and innovative articles which deploy interdisciplinary and comparative research methods add also welcomes progress reports on research projects, fieldwork notes, book reviews, and notes on conferences. Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture is published by Laboratorium Bantenologi, State Islamic University (UIN) Sultan Maulana Hasanuddin Banten in June and December each year. The journal accepts articles in English and Indonesia.
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Jelmane To To Dogen: Genealogi Kekerasan dan Perjuangan Subaltern Bali I Ngurah Suryawan
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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The long history of violence and the making of Balinese cultural politics have marginalized the narratives of some segments of society who are excluded and defeated by power. Their small narratives lie in the periphery of the discourse of the preservation of Balinese cultural politics. In contrast, according to their testimony their power relation is captured in the history of violence and Balinese cultural construction. These subaltern groups have become victims, but subsequently struggle, and that with their own ways they have lived their own life in a hard way. The genealogy of violence has become the foundation of the establishment of Balinese culture inherited from colonial times. The genealogy is created in a number of events showing how the Balinese struggle to survive in the midst of terror. I Nyoman Nambreg and I Ketut Sorog are one of them. They become the only living eyewitnesses of the most tragical event in their life. This article argues that the construction of Balinese cultural politics has become the essence of culture. Therefore, by making use of subaltern studies, the narratives outside power with post–colonial perspectives will produce sharp and humanist analysis in observing the power of the genealogy of violence and Balinese cultural politics. Keywords: Genealogy of Violence, Violence, Subaltern, Cultural Politics, Survivor.
Punk Muslim: Ekspresi ldentitas Keagamaan Subkultur Muslim Urban Rahmat Hidayatullah
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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This paper attempts to understand the expression of Punk Muslim's religious identities as an example of the interration process between religion and modernity, particularly Islam and popular culture in the context of contemporary Muslims' everyday life through the perspectives of cultural and religious studies. According to Lynn Schofield Clark, the study of interraction process between religion and popular culture involves a number of crucial questions: How is religion represented and understood in the landcape of popular culture? How are popular culture aspects adopted by religion as tools to strengthen people's identities? How do certain religious groups use popular culture as a source or a way to reflect and discuss the perspectives and practices of their religious life? How are religious traditions well-transmitted to the youth through stories, pictures, sounds and rituals? Keywords: Punk, Muslims, Religious Identities, Modernity, Popular, Culture
Notes on Conference Helmy F.B Ulumi
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Tracing Banten in South Africa
Ritual Daur Hidup di Kampung Naga, Desa Neglasari, Kec. Salawu Kab. Tasikmalaya Jawa Barat Abdurrahman Misno Bambang Prawiro
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Jawa Barat adalah salah satu dari provinsi di Indonesia yang memiliki kekayaan budaya yang sangat beragam. Kekayaan budaya di Tatar Sunda (Jawa Barat) terpusat pada beberapa wilayah yang menjadi konsentrasi komunitas adat, dari mulai wilayah timur Ciamis, hingga ke Sukabumi. Masing-masing wilayah memiliki kekhasan budaya yang berbeda antara yang satu dengan yang lainnya. Salah satu dari kebudayaan yang hingga ini masih ada dan dipertahankan adalah Kampung Naga, ia adalah sebuah kampung adat yang memegang teguh tradisi leluhur (karuhun) yang mereka warisi dari generasi ke generasi. Salah satu yang menarik dari komunitas Kampung Naga adalah ritual daur hidup (life cyrcle) yang mereka laksanakan tanpa dipengaruhi oleh budaya luar. Artikel ini memaparkan ritual daur hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga. Pendekatan yang digunakan adalah dengan metode etnografi, dimana penulis terlibat langsung dalam proses ritual yang mereka laksanakan. Observasi, wawancara mendalam dan partisipasi dalam setiap kegiatan adalah tekhnik yang digunakan untuk mendapatkan data yang dapat dipertanggunghjawabkan. Penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa ritual daru hidup yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas adat Kampung Naga meliputi ritual, ibu mengandung, kelahiran anak, khitanan, gusaran, perkawinan, dan selamatan bagi orang yang telah meninggal dunia. Ritual yang dilaksanakan oleh komunitas ini berasal dari kepercayaan lama Sunda dengan dikombinasikan dengan budaya Islam yang masuk belakangan. Keywords: Ritual Daur Hidup, Kampung Naga, Komunitas Adat, Tatar Sunda
Travel of Bonpo Gods from the Eurasian Borderlands to the Tibetan Culture Area and the Borderlands of North-east India Rajesh, M.N.
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Popular writing has brought about an image of Hindu deities that are seen as a part of Hinduism only and Hinduism is also seen as a religion of the Indian subcontinent. While this may be largely true in many cases, it forces us to look at Hinduism in very Semitic terms as a closed religion. On the contrary we see that there was a considerable travel of gods and goddesses from other religions into Hinduism and vice versa. And thus negates the idea of Hinduism as a closed system. This therefore brings us to the problem of defining Hinduism which is by no means an easy task as there is no agreement on any singular definition. Pre-modern India had more contacts with her neighbours and thus central Asia and south East Asia emerge as some of the main regions where Indian influence is seen in many aspects of life. Even to a casual observer of both central Asia and South East Asia we see that there striking Indian influences in culture, religion and other aspects of life. All of them are not part of the textual literature that has become very nationalistic in the recent past and this tends to also dismiss the earlier writings as western Eurocentric. It is true that there is a great element of eurocentricism in the earlier writings but one point that needs to be highlighted is that these earlier writings also faithfully portrayed many aspects like iconography etc. in a very descriptive manner that focused on the measurements, likeness, colour and other associated characteristics of the statues. Such trends are clearly visible in the writings of Jas Burgess,E.B Havell etc. who were influenced by the dominant paradigm in contemporary Europe of the 1850’s where the duty of the historian was to just record. Such an approach was informed by the writings of the German philosopher Leopold Von Ranke. Though there are certain value judgments at the end of the chapter, the main narrative is a dry as dust and it is easy to decipher the characteristics or reconstruct the iconographic programme in any shrine and by extension the religious practices. In the modern period , where the dominant forms of anti-colonial struggles led to a writing of nationalist history succeeded by Marxist influenced social histories in many parts of Asia, the identification of the national boundaries and national cultures also extended to religions and many aspects were either muted or totally obliterated in history writing to present a homogenous picture. Thus, we have a picture of Hinduism and Buddhism that fits in with the national narratives. Such a collapse of categories is there in the borderland of India where the cultural boundaries are not clearly marked as also h religious boundaries. One single example that illustrates this assertion is the portrayal of Sri Lanka as a Sinhala Buddhist region with the Tamil regions of Sri Lanka marked off as separate entity and both being largely exclusive. In the Buddhist temples of Sri Lanka, one finds firstly the statue of Ganesha and later the images of Karthikeya and also the god Shani or Saturn. This image of a Buddhist monastery sharply contrasts with the highly buddhistic space of a Sinhala Buddhist temple where non-Buddhist elements are not found. Keywords: Bonpo Gods, Tibetam Culture, Eurasian Borderlands, Hindu.
Makna Budaya dalam Dongeng Humor Masyarakat Banten M A Tihami
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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This article examines humour stories frequently told by the Bantenese. The main problems discussed here are: What kind of humour stories that spread among the Bantenese? What are the functions and meanings of the stories for the people? How do people understand and make use the stories? This article is the result of a set of fieldwork using ethnographic method with anthropological approach. In analyzing data, I use functional–structural approach. The methods used in collecting data are library research, participant observations, and in–depth interviews. Based on research findings, I conclude that there are at least 41 humour stories and 15 most popular themes. Meanwhile, based on its functions, there are at least 8 functions in the stories, namely as a set of advice pertaining moral values, as social critiques, to control attitude and behavior, to influnce people, to entertain, as tools to deal with boredom and stress, as tools to evaluate one’s mistakes, and as tools to select what is appropriate for the local society. Keywords: Banten, Folklore, Humour Stories, Local Culture, Popular, Culture.
Magic and the Communist Revolt of 1926 in Banten: Ulumi, Helmy Faizi Bahrul
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Studies on magic in civil revolts in Indonesia are remarkably scarce. The use of magic in Bantenese revolts are presented in the works of Kartodirdjo (1966) and Williams (1982,1990). This article explains several aspects of magic such as the form, the ritual, and thesources related to magic sourced from the Script of K.H. Muqri Labuan, one of the important figures in the communist revolt of 1926 in Banten, by using philological and historical approaches. The Script was written byK.H. Muqri during his escapee from Surabaya to Mecca when the Dutch colonial could defeat his rebellion in Labuan. His script is 17,5x21 cm consisted of 540pages written in Jawiand Arabic.  It mostly contains the magical formula and wird of severaltariqa. It also comprises his genealogy, the magical licence (ijâzah)he obtained, his journey notes to Mecca, his activities during living in Mecca, and the list of his disciples. Keywords: Banten, Magic, Tariqa, Social Revolution, Communism
Reports on Ongoing and Past Research Project The Dictionaries of the Local Languages of Banten Ade Jaya Suryani
Kawalu: Journal of Local Culture Vol 2 No 2 (2015): July - December 2015
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Reports on Ongoing and Past Research ProjectThe Dictionaries of the Local Languages of Banten

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