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Nasionalisme Humanistis Mahatma Gandhi, Agnes Sri Poerbasari Oct 2007

Nasionalisme Humanistis Mahatma Gandhi, Agnes Sri Poerbasari

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This article proposes to investigate how Gandhi developed the idea of humanistic nationalism and what the component of this idea is. Using the historical and political approaches, the investigation shows that Gandhian's nationalism reveals the relationship between religious aspiration, political ethic and the ideal economic and political institutions. Chronologically, this study describes Gandhi's leaderships in South Africa (1893-1914) and India (1915-1948), the basic orientation of Gandhi's thought and lastly explains the concept of humanistic nationalism. Briefly, the components of humanistic nationalism are the ideas of Hind Swaraj, Nation, Sarvodaya, Khadi Economic, Ramrajya and Panchayat Raj. Behind all those concepts is …

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Ideologi Keluarga Tradisional "Ie " Dan Kazoku Kokka Pada Masyarakat Jepang Sebelum Dan Sesudah Perang Dunia Ii, Etty N. Anwar Oct 2007

Ideologi Keluarga Tradisional "Ie " Dan Kazoku Kokka Pada Masyarakat Jepang Sebelum Dan Sesudah Perang Dunia Ii, Etty N. Anwar

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In studying Japan's cultural institution, understanding IE, which was the traditional family system used by the Bushi in the Tokugawa era, is indispensable. The IE system is believed to influence the entire aspect of Japanese life, be it the way of thinking, politics, social, economy, marriage, religion, and even the view of "Family State" in the era of Meiji Restoration implemented the structure of IE system. Hence, the IE system is considered to be one of the pillars of Japan's success. This short essay will discuss the IE ideology in the concept of experts on Japanese culture, the principles of …

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Kekhasan Pengajaran Bahasa Mandarin Di Indonesia, Hermina Sutami Oct 2007

Kekhasan Pengajaran Bahasa Mandarin Di Indonesia, Hermina Sutami

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

1998 was the year of Mandarin teaching resurrection in Indonesia after 30 years prohibited. Since then, many schools begin to teach Mandarin as an extracurricular subject. In the last two years it becomes an intracurricular subject. Since there was no Chinese school for almost 30 years, consequently there was no publication on Mandarin student's book, no Mandarin teachers. Nowadays, suddenly Mandarin teachers, student's book was highly needed. Many schools use Singapore/Taiwan's book. This rises problems, because Singapore/Taiwan's students language circumstance is different from Indonesian students. The result is far from what we expected. This article proposed some aids based on …

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Boundedness Dan Polusi Pada Situs Islam Cirebon Abad Xvi-Xviii, Irmawati M. Johan Oct 2007

Boundedness Dan Polusi Pada Situs Islam Cirebon Abad Xvi-Xviii, Irmawati M. Johan

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Archaeological sites are the traces of people 's lives in the past. The remaining traces are texts, simply waiting to be read. This article tries to interpret the housing patterns in the sites of palaces in Cirebon using the concepts of boundedness, the sacred, the profane, and the pollution.

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Paradigma Dalam Arkeologi Maritim, Mundardjito Mundardjito Apr 2007

Paradigma Dalam Arkeologi Maritim, Mundardjito Mundardjito

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper is based on a maritime archeological research that grounds itself on the preservation of archeological artefacts and maritime culture. Research on a number of drowned ships at the bottom of the sea and their cargo reveals the relationship between maritime culture and living regional communities. As a new paradigm in maritime archeology, its aim needs to be commensurate with the aim of the conservation efforts which is the empowerment of the communities themselves, and the communities outside of them, and needs to be oriented toward the interests of identity nurturance, development, and economy.

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Membaca Poststrukturalisme Pada Karya Sastra, V. Irmayanti Meliono Budianto Apr 2007

Membaca Poststrukturalisme Pada Karya Sastra, V. Irmayanti Meliono Budianto

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Poststructuralism can be employed as a method to analyse literary work. As text that contains literary expression of human life, literary work is open to interpretation and critical analysis. Poststructural approach deconstructs and reconstructs the conceptual construct of writing, metalanguage, and subjectivity in a text.

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Perdebatan Teori Transisi Demokrasi, Zeffry Alkatiri Apr 2007

Perdebatan Teori Transisi Demokrasi, Zeffry Alkatiri

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper discusses the debate on the theories of democratic transition that has been going on since the 1960s. Democratic thoughts area always related to a context of change in a society. The theories of democratic transition had come to be debated again when the communist block countries and Russia changed their ideology and entered a democratic transition process. This debate provide a reference point and comparative framework that can be employed to evaluate socio-political changes in other countries that are experiencing similar democratic transition process and all of the consequences and challenges it poses.

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Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Bahasa Indonesia Untuk Penutur Asing (Bipa) Berdasarkan Hasil Analisis Kebutuhan Belajar, Imam Suyitno Apr 2007

Pengembangan Bahan Ajar Bahasa Indonesia Untuk Penutur Asing (Bipa) Berdasarkan Hasil Analisis Kebutuhan Belajar, Imam Suyitno

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Teaching Indonesian for Foreign Learners or Indonesian as a Foreign Language (IFL) is different from teaching Indonesian as a first language. The differences are due to the characteristics of the learners. IFL learners generally are adults who have language and cultural background and learning style different from those Indonesian learners have. These differences demand IFL teachers and instructors to prepare teaching-learning materials and the activities of the teaching-learning process in the classroom that are relevant to the learners' needs. Understanding the entry level behavior of the learners, the teaching materials, the teaching-learning approach, and the evalution process is of crucial …

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Ujian Nasional (Un): Harapan, Tantangan, Dan Peluang, Gunadi H. Sulistyo Apr 2007

Ujian Nasional (Un): Harapan, Tantangan, Dan Peluang, Gunadi H. Sulistyo

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

The National Examination (NE) has been conducted for several times nation-wide. However, public debates always emerge over the importance of NE prior to the annual excecution of the examination. The government's policy to raise the passing standard under the pretext of improving the quality of the national education has commonly triggered a heated controversy. This paper discusses the NE from the perspectives of expectations, challenges and opportunities. It attempts to provide an objective picture as to the need to hold NE. As such, it puts the attempts to improve the quality of the national education through NE in a proportionately …

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Strategi Pembelajaran Bahasa Dan Sastra Indonesia Di Sekolah Dasar: Peran Guru Dalam Menyikapi Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan, Kushartanti Kushartanti Apr 2007

Strategi Pembelajaran Bahasa Dan Sastra Indonesia Di Sekolah Dasar: Peran Guru Dalam Menyikapi Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan, Kushartanti Kushartanti

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Teaching Indonesian in formal schools today is regarded as a challenge by many Indonesian teachers. In a country like Indonesia, in which language situation is very complex due to many languages and dialects (and also the fast-growing English usage in big cities), this phenomenon can be understood. Since the country's independence, there have been several curricula-one of them is Kurikulum Berbasis Kompetensi (competence-based curriculum), the newest being Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan Pendidikan (Unit Level of Education-Based Curriculum). The latter seems to be regarded as the most ideal curriculum, because it can be adjusted to the regions' policy. The problems are that …

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Lies Breathed Through Silver: Mythological Constructs In Tolkien’S Works, Joshua Mccrowell Apr 2007

Lies Breathed Through Silver: Mythological Constructs In Tolkien’S Works, Joshua Mccrowell

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

It’s not hard to imagine the English air being warm the night John Ronald Reuel Tolkien brought Clive Staples Lewis hard won into Christianity. The image of their lengthy midnight talk has since become almost mythic to those who study those two authors because of the impact that Christianity (and the other) had on each other’s lives. Lewis’ most famous works - everything from Narnia to his Space Trilogy to his apologetics - all are based on and inspired by his faith. Similarly, Tolkien once said that “The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic …

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Seni Kulinari, Kekuasaan, Dan Multikulturalisme Dalam Master Cooking Boy/ The Real Master Cooking Boy Karya Etsushi Ogawa, Lilawati Kurnia Oct 2006

Seni Kulinari, Kekuasaan, Dan Multikulturalisme Dalam Master Cooking Boy/ The Real Master Cooking Boy Karya Etsushi Ogawa, Lilawati Kurnia

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This essay examines manga, the japanese comic Master Cooking Boy" and inquires what the manga offers to the reader beside being a popular reading. This essay reviews the history of manga and its function in the Japanese culture. The paper unravels the theories of cultural studies such as hegemony and multiculturalism in the analyse of this manga. This paper discusses the wider horizon of manga as a field of hegemony discourse and multiculturalism. It opens the possibilities to analyse manga in a different perspective and shows how ideology can operates in the popular literature.

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Citra Penjajahan Jepang Di Indonesia Yang Terpantul Dalam Beberapa Novel Pramoedya, Koh Young Hun Oct 2006

Citra Penjajahan Jepang Di Indonesia Yang Terpantul Dalam Beberapa Novel Pramoedya, Koh Young Hun

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Images of Japanese troops which drawn by Pramoedya in his works indeed related with his own experiences. Pramoedya through his characters portrays his view on humanities. Pramoedya depicted the brutality of Japanese troops in their occupation in Indonesia. All Japanese propaganda delivered false messages and caused disasters for Indonesian people. Japanese culture retardation and their brutality made the author suffer and down. Even though his novels associate with anti Japanese occupation and patriotism among the youth, humanities issues in fact appear as a strong theme in all his works.

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The Coloniser And The Colonised: Reflections On Translation As Contested Space, Harry Aveling Oct 2006

The Coloniser And The Colonised: Reflections On Translation As Contested Space, Harry Aveling

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Tulisan ini mengemukakan pentingnya pemahaman penerjemah mengenai "kata" dari sebuah karya. Kata "coloniser" dan "colonised" yang muncul dalam karya Albert Memmi memiliki relevansi dengan pengertian kolonial yang bersifat metaforis. Oleh karena itu, seorang penerjemah, dalam melihat kedua kata itu, haruslah terfokus pada teks itu sendiri dan merefleksikannya. Secara singkat ada banyak cara untuk melihat karakteristik yang beragam dari hubungan antara penerjemah beserta terjemahannya dan penulisnya

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Kesusastraan Kontemporer Cina: Kontemporeritas Dan Kebijakan Pemerintah, Nurni W. Wuryandari Oct 2006

Kesusastraan Kontemporer Cina: Kontemporeritas Dan Kebijakan Pemerintah, Nurni W. Wuryandari

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

What is meant by contemporary literature? The first thing that comes up in mind is that the terminology of contemporary literature points out to "literature that is new" or "literature that is very recent", and constitutes a new trend lastly in touch with public. With this, contemporarity might possibly be seen or measured on the basis of time frame. In China, contemporary literature is not measured merely by the most recent time and the changing literary trend in a certain period of time, it is apparently not free from the political influence of the goverment in power. Political guidance issued …

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Demistifikasi Tokoh Don Juan Dalam La Nuit De Valognes Karya Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Talha Bachmid, S. Riella R. Muridan Oct 2006

Demistifikasi Tokoh Don Juan Dalam La Nuit De Valognes Karya Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Talha Bachmid, S. Riella R. Muridan

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Don Juan is a myth about a seducer, a man with many love adventures, a women's heat conqueror, and many other predicates. Don Juan as a myth is well-known world wide over, appearing in about 50 writings such as novels, plays, operas. But a French writer Eric-Emannuel Schmitt proposes a new figure of Don Juan in his play La Nuit de Valognes (Night in Valognes): the seducer is judged by five victims and convicted to marry one of his victims in order to stop his adventures. Surprisingly, Don Juan accepts this verdict without conditions. This sudden change becomes the theme …

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Multikultur Dan Multiperspektif Dalam Ham Internasional, Zeffry Alkatiri Oct 2006

Multikultur Dan Multiperspektif Dalam Ham Internasional, Zeffry Alkatiri

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper discusses the problem of human rights in an international context in which it often causes conflict of interests among different nations. It turns out that the Human Rights Declaration does not always provide convenient guide to problem of human rights abuse. This paper aims at demonstrating differing views in the international discourse on human rights and the necessity to understand those differing views and issues related to human rights. This is crucial to avoid taking side unwisely.

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Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson May 2006

Handling And Preventing Journalistic Fraud: Janet Cooke, Stephen Glass, Jayson Blair, Kenneth Munson

Undergraduate Theses and Capstone Projects

Fraud is a growing concern in the news business, especially in recent years where numerous journalism scandals rock its foundation. This paper examines the most prominent cases: Stephen Glass, the reporter for The New Republic newsmagazine who completely or partially fabricated 27 stories in the late ‘90s; Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who was found to have plagiarized or made up his supposedly on-thescene reporting in 2003; and Janet Cooke, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for her Washington Post story about a child heroin addict who, in actuality, did not exist. This paper will examine flaws …

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Kesultanan Bima Di Pulau Sumbawa, Tawalinuddin Haris Apr 2006

Kesultanan Bima Di Pulau Sumbawa, Tawalinuddin Haris

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Bima is a region that has been attracting researchers' attention, which should not be surprising because it has always been a multicultural region. Its history reveals that Bima was one of the sailing routes, especially of the Malay Muslim traders, sailing from the direction of East Java. Bima then became a center of the Islamic rule in the eastern Nusantara. This paper discusses a brief history of how Bima became a center of Islamic rule that was strongly influenced by the Malays.

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A King Who Tames His Enemies And Not Who Is Obedient To The Law, Revo Arka Giri Soekatno Apr 2006

A King Who Tames His Enemies And Not Who Is Obedient To The Law, Revo Arka Giri Soekatno

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Dongeng tentang raja yang mengerti bahasa binatang terdapat versinya dalam Pa catantra baik yang berbahasa Java Kuno maupun Pertengahan. Sadurannya juga terdapat dalam kesusasteraan Jawa Modern, seperti dalam siklus-siklus Anglingdarma. Namun, dalam berbagai versi Java ada kerancuan soal berbagai nama sang raja. Nama-nama tersebut misalnya Aridharma, Hari Dharma, Aji Dharma dan Angling Darma. Makalah ini akan membahas masalah nama raja ini dengan asumsi bahwa kejelasannya akan membantu perolehan pemahaman yang lebih baik tentang kesusastraan Jawa, baik Kuno maupun Modern.

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Bushido Dalam Masyarakat Jepang Modern, Bambang Wibawarta Apr 2006

Bushido Dalam Masyarakat Jepang Modern, Bambang Wibawarta

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Bushido is most often translated as the way of the warrior caste in Japan. Bushi refers to warriors in feudal Japan while do means several things including: the correct way, the path, or the road. Another interpretation of Bushido could be the way of preserving peace through the use of force. Bushido comes out of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shintoism. The combination of these schools of thought and religions has formed the code of warrior values known as Bushido. A key to our understanding of how the concepts of Bushido fit into Japanese modern lives is to understand the historical and …

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Marina La Malinche: Writing Across Cultures, Harry Aveling Apr 2006

Marina La Malinche: Writing Across Cultures, Harry Aveling

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Tulisan ini membahas karya pengarang perempuan Prancis, Kim Lef vre. Lef vre dilahirkan di Vietnam dari ayah Prancis dan ibu Vietnam-ia sendiri kini tinggal di Prancis. Karya-karya autobiografinya berkenaan dengan kompleksitas identitas campurannya. Dalam karya novelnya Marina la Malinche, ia menyajikan kehidupan seorang wanita penerjemah, Malinche, selama invasi Spanyol di Meksiko. Malinche saat ini dianggap oleh orang Meksiko sebagai pengkhianat bangsa. Dalam novel itu Lef vre menggunakan tokoh Malinche sebagai cermin problem identitasnya. Penerjemah hanyalah seorang "pengkhianat" ketika ia menjadi korban kekuatan di luar dirinya.

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A Possible Location Of Gajah Mada's Madakaripura, Amrit Gomperts Apr 2006

A Possible Location Of Gajah Mada's Madakaripura, Amrit Gomperts

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Desa Madakaripura adalah desa milik Patih Gajah Mada, patih Kerajaan Majapahit yang sangat terkenal. Namun, hingga saat ini belum jelas lokasi Desa Madakaripura itu. Menurut Prapa ca pada tahun 1359 desa itu berada di wilayah Pasuruan. Tulisan ini mengupayakan penemuan desa itu. Dengan metode analisis toponim dan peta-peta akan dicoba untuk dipastikan letak Madakaripura dengan seteliti mungkin agar ahli arkeologi Indonesia bisa mencari situsnya. Sebagai kesimpulan, kemungkinan besar Madakaripura terletak di sebelah tenggara enam kilometer dari kota Pasuruan.

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Abreviasi Dalam Bahasa Inggris, Arie Andrasyah Isa Apr 2006

Abreviasi Dalam Bahasa Inggris, Arie Andrasyah Isa

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This study is concerned with a productive word-form process in the morphological level, such as abbreviation. Through the process of the word form, I intend to find out how to make new words in using the abbreviation in English. Besides, I intend to review the concept of abbreviation. The aim of this study is also to observe how the abbreviation can form new words. The data employed in this study are from newspaper Jakarta Post and Kompas, and examples provided by the related linguists. With the data exemplified by the linguists and based on their discussion on abbreviation, I think …

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Tingkat Tutur Dalam Bahasa Sasak Dan Bahasa Jawa, Sudirman Wilian Apr 2006

Tingkat Tutur Dalam Bahasa Sasak Dan Bahasa Jawa, Sudirman Wilian

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

This paper discusses about speech levels in Sasak, the language of the indigenious people of the island of Lombok, examining the style, meaning and some historical background of the speech levels. Based on the data, it shows that Sasak, like Javanese and Balinese, also contains low, mid, high and few honorific vocabularies which are assumed to have been borrowed from Javanese (Steven, 1975; Nothofer, 1975). However, the use of the high and honorific variations are scarecly heard in the everyday common Sasaks conversation. In most occurrences, the high speech level is pronounced only among the so called menak Sasaks and …

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Kritik Pemikiran Arab: Metode Dekonstruksi Mohammed Arkoun, Siti Rohmah Soekarba Apr 2006

Kritik Pemikiran Arab: Metode Dekonstruksi Mohammed Arkoun, Siti Rohmah Soekarba

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Mohammed Arkoun is one of an international Islamic modern thinker that his thought comes into Islamic thinking discourses in Indonesia recently. His Islamic thought were influenced by the modern philosophy concepts such as "myths" of Paul Ricouer, postmodern concepts like 'discourse' and 'episteme', which were developed by Michel Foucault as well as 'deconstruction' of Jacques Derrida. If Derrida focused on deconstruction of a discourse as a final concept, on the other hand Arkoun insisted that 'deconstruction' must be followed by 'reconstruction'. Arkoun's reconstruction leaves the limitation, the rigidity and deviation from the past. Arkoun proposes two ways: firstly it is …

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Berkahnya Akal Yang Mili Dari Sebuah Kali, Muhammad Wasith Apr 2006

Berkahnya Akal Yang Mili Dari Sebuah Kali, Muhammad Wasith

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

No abstract provided.

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Potret Penghulu Dalam Naskah; Sebuah Pengalaman Penelitian, Muhamad Hisyam Oct 2005

Potret Penghulu Dalam Naskah; Sebuah Pengalaman Penelitian, Muhamad Hisyam

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In the daily life of the Indonesian people, a penghulu plays a role in accordance with the way the word is understood by the community in which he lives. In West Sumatra, a penghulu is the head of the nagari. In Riau, he has a status equal to that of a head of a village. In Java, he has an authority in all administrative matters of religion. This paper discusses the meaning of penghulu as depicted in old manuscripts written by the natives. Based on a research on these native manuscripts, it can be concluded that a penghulu plays the …

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Penyalinan Naskah Melayu Di Palembang; Upaya Mengungkap Sejarah Penyalinan, Maria Indra Rukmi Oct 2005

Penyalinan Naskah Melayu Di Palembang; Upaya Mengungkap Sejarah Penyalinan, Maria Indra Rukmi

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

In Palembang manuscripts are known to be available originating in the Palembang Palace as well as individual collection. This paper discusses the tradition of copying manuscript in Palembang, beginning with the historical background of Palembang, continuing with Malay manuscript copying in Palembang, and with a limited information on the content of the manuscript. Cultural diversity in Palembang where Javanese, Chinese, Arab elements are found, as well as those of the aristocrats and the common people, have impacted on the social lives of the people of Palembang. This diversity is reflected in the manuscripts that have been preserved, including those originating …

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Bentuk Gambar Telapak Tangan Pada Gua-Gua Prasejarah Di Kabupaten Pangkajene Kepulauan, Sulawesi Selatan, R. Cecep Eka Permana Oct 2005

Bentuk Gambar Telapak Tangan Pada Gua-Gua Prasejarah Di Kabupaten Pangkajene Kepulauan, Sulawesi Selatan, R. Cecep Eka Permana

Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia

Cave pictures are one form of human culture found in old sites of dwelling caves of the pre-historical time. Cave pictures can be said to be universal in nature because they are found almost every where in the world, including Indonesia. One form or object of picture frequently found is hand stencils. In Indonesia, beside Kalimantan, the Moluccas, and Irian, it is also found in South Sulawesi, especially in the District of Pangkajene Islands (Pangkep). Twelve caves in Pangkep are studied where 326 hand stencils are found. The hand part, orientation, hand side, number of fingers, size, color, and context …

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