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Budaya Penjara: Arena Sosial Semi Otonom Di Lembaga Permasyarakatan "X", A. Josias Simon Runturambi

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper is an ethnographic study to understand the prison’s culture in the correctional institutions “X”. The writer has examined carefully the way of living day by day directly and raised a variety of mutual agreements among the residents behind the prison walls. The results in the investigation field shows the limit and deprivation that appears as an interpretation actor, not the institution, that occur according certain contexts. The prison’s culture not only discuss informal agreement but how the agreements can be maintained by the actors in everyday’s life utilization in fulfilling the needs and self-interests

Kebangkitan Identitas Orang Bajo Di Kepulauan Wakatobi, Tasrifin Tahara

Antropologi Indonesia

This article is the research on Bajonese life in Wakatobi regency of the Southeast Sulawesi Province as a community with a maritime history and culture as part of their life. In the interactional process with other communities in its surroundings in Wakatobi, The Bajonese are often stereotyped as pirates, stupid, and with physical characteristics that are different from other communities. In fact, for so long they have been neglected from the process of development implemented by either the central government or the regency government. As a marginal ethnic group, the Bajonese develop their own awareness to do morenients to negotiate …

Karakteristik Anak Jalanan Dan Bentuk-Bentuk Kekerasan Terhadap Anak Jalanan Di Kota Padang Provinsi Sumatera Barat, Erwin -

Antropologi Indonesia

Protection issues of children's rights in Indonesia has not received sufficient attention. Law 4 of 1979 concerning child welfare, and No. 23 of 2002 on the protection of children. Children's rights, such as the right to life, the right to protection from the threats to her own safety, the right to equality in education, employment, health, the right to employment, the right to meet the needs of food, clothing and shelter. Quantitatively, the number of street children in the city of Padang in the last ten years has increased. This research provides in-depth information about the various forms of violence …

Tentang Kata Korupsi Yang Datang Silih Berganti, Muhammad Narsum

Antropologi Indonesia

This paper is intended to provide an overview of anthropological perspectives on corruption as political, social, and cultural phenomenon. The author attempted that anthropological concerns on corruption was driven by a number of epistemological reasons, institutionalized and embedded in the broader context of power relations both of globally and locally. The biggest challenge for anthropology, which deals with the complexity of corruption, lies in: how to explain or interpret such phenomenon without apprehensively will be going into ethical and moral pitfalls. On the one hand anthropologists should be described corruption as an inevitable part of wider power relations at the …

Upaya Pencegahan Perceraian Berbasis Keluarga Luas Dan Institusi Lokal Dalam Masyarakat Minangkabau Di Sumatera Barat, Fachrina -, Rinaldi Eka Putra

Antropologi Indonesia

Advisory Board Disputes Divorce dan Marriage (BP4) established government as part of efforts to reduce the divorce rate. But divorce continues from time to time and quantitatively increasing every year, with a variety of result / impact there of. Prevention and mitigation of the problem of divorce can not be left to government officials just because the problem is multidimensional; social, cultural and moral. To overcome this problem must involve all the elements and social institutions in the local community.

Accessories Of Modern Mayan Grinding Stones, Michael T. Searcy

Faculty Publications

The mano and metate are seen as natural companion pieces in the archaeological record. Ethnographic resources suggest there may have been other tools associated with daily grinding activities including biconically drilled (donut) stones and wooden boards. This paper presents evidence for these findings and explores their archaeological implications. It also demonstrates the valuable information that can be gleaned from the modern Mayan groups living in Highland Guatemala today.

Observations On Eye Care In Lamu, Kenya: Overlooked Needs And Proposed Interventions, Erick Henderson, Rebecca Gearhart

Scholarship

These notes draw attention to the underserved eye care needs of residents of Lamu, Kenya. They are comprised of observations that we, Rebecca Gearhart, an anthropology professor at Illinois Wesleyan University (IWU) and Erick Henderson, an IWU biology and pre-optometry major and president of the Optometry Club, made while volunteering at a clinic in Lamu, Kenya during the summer of 2011. Plans to establish a temporary eye clinic emerged after Rebecca discovered that Erick was an optometric technician who might use his portable optometry lens set to fit residents of Lamu Town on Lamu Island for glasses and teach them …

Ekshibisi, Kekuasaan, Dan Identitas: Tafsir Atas Politik Representasi Tiga Museum Di Yogyakarta, Khidir Marsanto

Antropologi Indonesia

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Totua Ngata Dan Konflik (Studi Atas Posisi Totua Ngata Sebagai Lembaga Adat Di Kecamatan Marawola), Hendra -

Antropologi Indonesia

Talking about tradition, it is kind of imagination of kinship in the past in an idealism positions in an orderly and harmonious level. Everyone respect each other and take position in the clan and their class respectively. The aims of this paper is to find out information about the institutions traditional role in the District Marawola to the conflict in the community. The research start with a literature study then continued with observation and interviews. This paper apply govern mentality theory that triggered by Michael Foucault. The results that found in this research that the traditional institutions began to lose …

Sekerei Mentawai: Keseharian Dan Tradisi Pengetahuan Lokal Yang Digerus Oleh Zaman, Lucky Zamzam

Antropologi Indonesia

Based on data from fieldwork in Mentawai, this article discusses the researcher’s interest in traditional medicine actors among the Mentawai people, namely Sekerei. The appeal of a Sekerei is realized through their modest daily lives, despite the effect these days of power from outside and modernity, that has so heavily eroded the local knowledge available. Sekerei are diminishing numbers, and medicinal herb findings are diminishing annually, showing that traditional healers have been split into two parts, namely fixed synergized with traditional natural life, or becoming a very important part in the globalization that is gripping the power of a Sekerei.

Marapu: Konstruksi Identitas Budaya Orang Sumba, Ntt, Purwadi Soeriadiredja

Antropologi Indonesia

This article examines how the people of Sumba construct their cultural identity associated with their religiosity in the face of discriminatory processed around them. The Sumbanese with their Marapu religion are discriminated againts because of the cultural identity attached to it, but due to their negative image. Discriminatory categories with all the attributes and roles attached to ithemare not natural constructs, but a history and representation. The cultural identity of the Sumbanese is the result of the interaction between the forces from the "outside" and the practices of their daily life. Marapu is a religion that serve as is the …

Memanusiakan Manusia' Dalam Lingkungan Yang Tangguh: Mengapa 'Jauh Panggang Dari Api'?, Yunita T. Winarto

Antropologi Indonesia

It is a reality that our environment has become degraded due to various human activities without any concerns for the long-term sustainable implication on both nature and the people who have for generations developed social-cultural institutions to protect their environment in a sustainable manner. The problems have been more severe due to the alienation of local people in their own habitat and the replacement of their roles by those who have power and authority in introducing various kinds of development programmes. There have been no linkages between the physical and natural processes as the consequences of those programmes with people’s …

The Ritual Of Khanduri Bungong Kayèe (An Ethnographic Study In West Labuhan Haji-South Aceh), Abdul Manan

Antropologi Indonesia

The khanduri of the tree blossom is performed in Jumadil Akhir (the sixth Islamic lunar month). The khanduri is held for fruit-bearing trees. It aim is tu ensure that the trees will bear fruit and their blossoms will not fade and fall onto the round prematurely, thatthey will not be attacked by pests so that they will contribute to the livelihood of human beings. This research is a field research and its data were obtained through meticulous observation and in depth interview with

key informants. The result of the research shows that it is the winds that cause the trees …

Ideological War In Inclusive Twitter: #Indonesiatanpajil Versus Jaringan Islam Liberal, Sindhunata Hargyono

Antropologi Indonesia

In early 2012, a civil-initiated movement called #IndonesiaTanpaFPI urged the government todisband an Islamic fundamentalist group called FPI (Front Pembela Islam) because of the violence to an Islamic minority group that FPI had commited earlier. #IndonesiaTanpaFPI heavily relied upon Twitter in organizing their movement, so when a counter-movement from the pro-FPI emerged, it was on Twitter as well; the counter-movement called themselves #IndonesiaTanpaJIL. This counter-movement believes that #IndonesiaTanpaFPI was actually initiated and organized by Jaringan Islam Liberal (JIL). Since then, #IndonesiaTanpaJIL and JIL have been fighting discursively on Twitter. This article concentrates on the formation of two religious publics constituted …

Bundo Kanduang: (Hanya) Pemimpin Di Rumah (Gadang), Zainal Arifin

Antropologi Indonesia

Minangkabau ethnic group known is very strictly implement custom of matrilineal. One of these values is male position (sumando) that marginal, because according to matrilineal custom, a man is urang asing (outsiders) in the group of women (wife families). This is expressed through the proverb bak abu diateh tunggua (like ashes on the stump). This position of course is not profitable, so that they have to negotiate with the women to strengthen “the identity of maleness" of them. It shows the politics movement of Minangkaba’s men in an effort to show and strengthen their identity. This political identity of Minangkabau’s …

Memahami Sistem Pengetahuan Budaya Masyarakat Pegunungan Tengah, Jayawijaya, Papua Dalam Konteks Kebencanaan, Leny Veronika

Antropologi Indonesia

Jayawijaya suffers from hazards stemming from natural and human-made-disaster (anthropogenic). Dani tribe resided in Jayawijaya is known to dwell on profound influence of culture and nature allowing genuine local knowledge in managing disaster risks to breed. This study aims to understand the cultural knowledge systems of Dani tribe relating to disaster and its practices. This study is developed from desk studies and interviews with stakeholders. Dani tribe has known the concept of human-and-human and human-and-nature unison. They define this concept as transcendence relationship. Harmonious relationship between human and nature is believed would influence livelihood and in contrast would engender various …

‘Pokok Hari Nyalah’: Catatan Budaya (Lokal) Dalam Membaca Perubahan Iklim (Global), Pangeran P. P. A. Nasution

Antropologi Indonesia

In the last decade, the issue of climate change phenomenon has been a serious debate for the people around the world. The impact of the climate change symptom can be felt or experience directly by a societal group in any environment. The problems being experienced by the people related with the climate change phenomenon can be revealed by tracing their knowledge (culture) in understanding and predicting the circumstances of the environment; their perception about the environment which has been more unpredictable in the recent time; and the effort that were applied by them to face of the unpredictable circumstances of …

Kekuasaan Yang Bekerja Melalui Perlawanan: Kasus Penguasaan Hutan Oleh Masyarakat Dan Perusahaan, Prudensius Maring

Antropologi Indonesia

This article analyze model of resistance between the local community and private company with inspired to perspective of power relation. Analysis based on the research about forest tenure by the local community and private company in Praha Village, Jambi. The research inspired qualitative approach with methods of indepth interview and participatory observation. The local community and private company constitute stakeholders that have interest on the forest resources. Complexity of the stakeholders’s interest were expressed through models of the social relation that were conflict, collaboration, and resistance. Dynamics of the social relation are reality of the power relation. Resistance are strategy …

Huaqiao Dan Huaren: Sebuah Tinjauan Historis, Joanessa M.J.S Seda

Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya

This paper talks about the history of the birth and development of the terms Huaqiao and Huaren, the popular terms in Chinese for Chinese people who migrated out of China. In fact, there were two important factors which influenced the birth and development process of these terms. Those were the migration of the Chinese people out of China and the political development in and outside China. Without migration, these terms would not exist. Even if they exist, the birth and development of their meaning were influenced by the perceptions of all people who were involved and had interest in this …

Working From Within: Observations Of Non-Governmental Efforts To Decrease Social Marginalization In Buenos Aires, Elisabeth Tilstra

Pursuit - The Journal of Undergraduate Research at The University of Tennessee

This essay is a modification of an excerpt from the senior thesis written for the Chancellor’s Honors Program at The University of Tennessee. The complete project—titled “Bringing the Outside In: An Examination of Non-Governmental Aid Organizations in Buenos Aires”—first examines the political and economic history of Argentina as a context from which to understand the current stage of actors in the social sector. Then, drawing from my fieldwork in the slums surrounding urban Buenos Aires, it introduces the twelve organizations I studied that work with issues of poverty and development, exploring organizational elements that aid or limit a nonprofit’s efficacy. …