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Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Published by Universitas Indonesia
ISSN : 14112272     EISSN : 24076899     DOI : https://doi.org/10.17510/wacana
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by the Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia. It invites original articles on various issues within humanities, which include but are not limited to philosophy, literature, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, history, cultural studies, philology, arts, library and information science focusing on Indonesian studies and research. Wacana seeks to publish a balanced mix of high-quality theoretical or empirical research articles, case studies, review papers, comparative studies, exploratory papers, and book reviews. All accepted manuscripts will be published both online and in printed forms. The journal publishes two thematic issues per year, in April and October. The first thematic issue consists of two numbers.
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Paul Sillitoe (ed.) (2021), "The anthroposcene of weather and climate; Ethnographic contributions to the climate change debate" van Klinken, Gerry
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 25, No. 3
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Jean-Pascal Elbaz (ed.) (2023), "Surat menyurat Louis-Charles Damais – Claire Holt 1945-1947; Revolusi Indonesia di mata seorang ilmuwan Prancis" Marihandono, Djoko
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 25, No. 3
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Preface Vol. 25 No. 3 Moeimam, Susi
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 25, No. 3
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Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist Adelaar, Alexander
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 25, No. 3
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Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy language material (1603) consists of a wordlist and short prose texts. It represents a dialect spoken more than four hundred years ago in the Antongil Bay region on Madagascar’s northeast coast, which does not have a documented modern descendant. This chapter investigates Malay and (to a lesser extent) Javanese loanwords found in this material. Most of these loanwords are demonstrably old and can be dated to an era preceding the Malagasy migrations to eastern Africa thirteen centuries ago. They provide invaluable insights into the world of the early migrants to Madagascar and the degree of their exposure to major civilizations in insular Southeast Asia before their departure from Borneo. Another important aspect of these loanwords is that they hold unique information about Malay and Javanese lexical history. Finally, that Houtman’s material represents Madagascar’s oldest historiolect only adds to the appeal of these data.
Austroasiatic loanwords in Austronesian languages Mahdi, Waruno
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 25, No. 3
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This paper investigates lexical borrowing from Austroasiatic into Austronesian languages. It does so for the following contact stages and interactions between these languages following the Austronesian overseas dispersal: (Stage 1) early contacts between Austroasiatic and Malayo-Polynesian particularly in the early Neolithic in the area encompassing mainland Southeast Asia, Northwest Kalimantan, and Sumatra, often resulting in the transmission of faunal terms; (Stage 2) interactions between speakers of Mon-Khmer and Malayo-Chamic languages during the early development of statehood; (Stage 3) exchange of terms in the period of early Khmer, Cham, and Malay kingdoms. Some of these transmissions can be shown to have taken place against the backdrop of the paramountcy of the kingdom of Funan. The latter stage also involves Sanskrit loanwords which were transmitted to Malayo-Polynesian via a Mon-Khmer language. The loanwords in this article are informative of Southeast Asia’s language history as well as the region’s cultural history.
Sundanese performing arts in the US as legacy of the Center for World Music Foley, Kathy
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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Presentation of Sundanese arts in the US by non-Sundanese grew from a program of the Center for World Music (CWM), an incubator for Sundanese performing arts practice in the San Francisco Bay area in the 1970s. Those (both Sundanese and American) coming out of that encounter engaged in intercultural teaching and performance of music, dance, and wayang (puppet/human dance theatre) in the US in the then developing programs leading to a BA or graduate degree in ethnomusicology, dance, or theatre arts. Performances by Sundanese gamelan groups with American artists in and beyond the university also developed. While such groups persist, socio-political shifts in Indonesia-US relations, including in West Java’s modernization and urbanization, more conservative interpretations of religion due to the post-1980s Islamic revival, and the ageing of teachers have impacted. At the same time, trends in American academia including the questioning of interculturalism as neocolonialism, the trends toward study of urban popular music, and changing American identity politics, caused shifts in the study and performance of Sundanese arts in the US.
Beyond the "zaman kaset" (era of the cassette); Interview with Euis Komariah Spiller, Henry
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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Indonesian music fans all over the world were saddened to learn of the untimely death of Euis Komariah on 11 August 2011, in Bandung, West Java. Ibu Euis earned international fame as an award-winning singer, a teacher, and a businesswoman. I had the opportunity to interview her about her illustrious career on 19 April 2007, during her residency at the University of California, Davis. This essay provides an annotated translation of that interview, in which we addressed topics including media (radio broadcasting and the cassette industry), recording technologies, the development of new tunings and modes, and the development of jaipongan. The annotations expand on the interview’s very particular historical context of the 2007 music scene and contextualize it in terms of more recent developments in Sundanese music and media. It is my intention that this record of our conversation will disseminate some of the details of this remarkable artist’s life and career to a wide audience, and contribute to her lasting memory, both in Indonesia and abroad, as well as provide a broader context for understanding contemporary Sundanese music.
A virtual art festival in West Java; Participatory culture during the pandemic Lahpan, Neneng Yanti Khozanatu
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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YouTube was used as a significant platform for public performances around the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, including those given by contemporary and traditional artists and communities. Although this transference of public performance to virtual performance has meant challenges for traditional artists, it has also encouraged them to create new creative media spaces. Instead of confronting digital technology, some traditional artists compromise and negotiate with it. Through an ethnographic account of a performance in Tasikmalaya, West Java, this article describes how traditional artistic forms were preserved through a virtual-based art festival performed by the art community, Komunitas Cermin Tasikmalaya. Solidarity, collaboration, and networking were crucial elements in holding the online festival in which young people were the main actors in this participatory culture, which was widely disseminated through YouTube.
Sundanese "Kecap Anteuran" from the perspective of Japanese onomatopoeia Risagarniwa, Yuyu Yohana; Lyra, Hera Meganova; Sopian, Rahmat
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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One of the distinctive features of the Sundanese language is the use of Kecap Anteuran (KA), or verb intensifiers. This linguistic feature often poses challenges when translating Sundanese into foreign languages, particularly European languages. However, we argue that Sundanese KA demonstrates a higher degree of translatability into Japanese, a language that also uses verb intensifiers similar to those found in Sundanese. In Japanese, words analogous to Sundanese KA are categorized as giongo-gitaigo, although the term onomatope is more commonly used. This study aims to identify Sundanese KA based on Tamori’s classification of Japanese onomatopoeia. Using a descriptive-qualitative approach, we examine (Sound [S] and Mentality [M]) onomatopoeia. The findings reveal that Sundanese onomatopoeic and non-onomatopoeic KA align with their respective Japanese counterparts as classified by Tamori, based on their associations with sensations, perceptions, emotional states, and the descriptions of activities.
Transformed images of women in a Sundanese magazine; A corpus linguistics perspective Yuliawati, Susi
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia Vol. 26, No. 1
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In this paper, I examine the evolving portrayal of women in Sundanese society through a close analysis of certain nouns denoting women in the magazine Manglé. Using corpus linguistics, specifically word frequency and collocation analyses, I aim to investigate the evolving images of Sundanese women in relation to Indonesia’s political context over time. I argue that the evolution shown can be seen as a detailed overview of how the images of Sundanese women have been transformed. The results indicate that the trend in constructing women’s images is predominantly through the use of the noun wanoja, in contrast to other nouns. Through this noun, women are increasingly portrayed as possessing greater confidence to engage in the public sphere. In addition to spotlighting Sundanese women’s discussion, this paper can also serve as a representative case of how corpus linguistics research can be applied to other Sundanese texts or other regional texts in Indonesia.