scholarly journals Everyday practices of memory: Authenticity, value and the gift

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 621-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Blakely ◽  
Kate Moles
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Village

This article develops theories of collective memory by attending to the everyday practices and meaning-making involved in creating and sustaining sites of heritage. While research across disciplines linked to memory studies has increased in recent years, with a notable sociological contribution, as yet ethnographic understandings of how collective memory is produced and maintained through locally situated and embedded practices are not fully realized. Our research took place in the village of Six Bells in the South Wales Valleys, where living memory of a coal mining disaster in 1960 and coal mining itself are slowly disappearing. One of ways in which the people of Six Bells are remembering and commemorating this past is by giving their narratives and artefacts to the community’s ‘heritage room’ as gifts. This form of remembering, prompted by an extraordinary event and the rapid social change associated with deindustrialization, produces and sustains legitimate representations and imaginaries of the past. By developing anthropological understandings of gift exchange, we propose that these practices are one visible component of the claims to authenticity and the bestowal of value active in the memory work of everyday life. We attend to three interrelated characteristics of gift exchange to develop our argument; the importance of the personal in producing authenticity through the gift relation; the provenance and social impetus of the act of giving; and the systems of reciprocity generated across and between generations, which work to assign value to the gift itself.

Scott Cook. Understanding Commodity Cultures: Explorations in Economic Anthropology with Case Studies from Mexico. Lanham, Rowman & Littleford Publishers, Inc., 2004, xi, 349 pp.

2005 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 892-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Central America ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Gift Exchange ◽  
Central American ◽  
Economic Anthropology ◽  
Market Exchange ◽  
Bay Area ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Impact

Economic anthropology has two ‘sacred' field sites—one in Melanesia, the other in Central America—and the empirical data gathered from these sites has set the theoretical agenda for the sub-discipline. Malinowski conducted seminal fieldwork in both of these areas and the respective subjects of his investigations tells us much about the socio-economic concerns of people in Melanesia and Central America. His classic ethnography on the Kula exchange system of the Milne Bay area of Papua New Guinea, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, established Melanesia as the classic home of gift exchange. The postwar ethnographies have only served to confirm the passion Melanesians have for creating intricate forms of gift exchange: Andrew Strathern's The Rope of Moka, introduced us to the ties that bind the ‘big men' in the Highlands; Michael Young's Fighting with Food: Leadership, Values and Social Control in a Massim Society, challenged us to rethink the social role of food, and so on. These ethnographies, and many others like them, have provided the ethnographic base on which general theories of the gift have risen, Marilyn Strathern's The Gender of the Gift: Problems with Women and Problems with Society in Melanesia, being the best-known recent synthesis. The product of Malinowski's Central American fieldwork, Malinowski in Mexico: The Economics of a Mexican Market System (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), which he wrote with J. de la Fuente, has not had the impact of Argonauts, for a number of reasons, including the fact that an English translation of the 1957 Spanish edition took some twenty-five years to appear, and that his research, carried out in 1940, was not pioneering in the same ethnographic and theoretical way that Argonauts was. His Mexican work was part of a long tradition of American scholarship on the peasant-artisan commodity producers of this area. Commodity production and exchange is to the people of Central America what gift exchange is to Melanesians. However, the exchange of commodities in Central America is a not ceremonial ritual, but rather everyday reality that the people must undertake in order to survive. It has been this way for centuries, which is why Central American ethnographers have devoted so much time to describing and analyzing petty commodity reproduction. This is not to say that market exchange is unimportant for the people of Melanesia, but what sets Melanesia apart is that gift exchange has flourished under the impact of capitalism, and it is this question that commentators have tried to describe and explain. What then are the peculiar social conditions found in Central America that account for the specificities of the economy found there? What conceptual frameworks have economic anthropologists developed to come to terms with these facts?

scholarly journals GAMELAN SELONDING CHRICAL FUNCTIONS IN TENGANAN PEGRINGSINGAN VILLAGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
I Wayan Suharta ◽  
I Nyoman Suarka ◽  
I Wayan Cika ◽  
I Ketut Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Artistic Expression ◽  
Iron Plate ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
Interpretive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Village

This paper aims to study and understand the sacredness of the Salonding gamelan in Tenganan Village in its context with religious rituals and the people of Tenganan Village as protection. Gamelan Selonding in Tenganan Village has its own history, its existence is associated with stories or myths that have been passed down from generation to generation. The approach used is semiotic through interpretive analysis of texts and contexts that support the culture concerned. The research found that, starting with the discovery of three iron plate blades which were declared as Selonding gamelan blades. Believed to be a descent that is not made by ordinary humans, but because of the gift of nature, the people of Tenganan Village are called 'Bhatara Bagus Selonding'. Gamelan Selonding for the people of Tenganan Village is very sacred. In maintaining its sacredness it is adjusted to the concept of the village, kala, and patra, not to be touched by other people, except by members of the selected art group (Gambe) with seven members. Gambel juru has the responsibility to maintain the sanctity of the Selonding gamelan. For the people of Tenganan Village, the sacredness of the Selonding gamelan is not just an outward statement, but a totality that represents the integration of people's thoughts, feelings, speech and attitudes, so that the treatment of Selonding is prostration. So, Selonding for the people of Tenganan village, is not just a medium of artistic expression but a representation of religiosity so that selonding is sacred and sanctified.  Keywords: Gamelan Selonding, representation, art, religiosity

CULTURAL HERITAGE AND IMAGES OF THE CITY: TRANSFORMATION OF SAWAHLUNTO IN INDONESIA

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agseora Ediyen ◽  
Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
City Government ◽  
City Image ◽  
Image Construction ◽  
Mining City ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

In order to be acknowledged as a World Heritage Centre by UNESCO in 2016, the city government transformed Sawahlunto, which used to be an old mining city, into what the government claimed as a culturally touristic mining city. The city had basically been declared as a dead city; however, the government has strategically increased its economics through tourism. This article focuses on the meaning-making process in the construction of the city image(s) basing the process in the discussion of the politics of collective memory and cultural heritage. Data, mainly findings from observations, interviews and textual analysis, were collected from two tourism sites namely Goedang Ransoem Museum and Lubang Tambang Mbah Soero. The aim of the research is to interpret how the people in Sawahlunto make sense of the image construction of the city or even contest it as the government conveyed particular meaning in redefining the city‟s identity. Abidin Kusno‟s conceptualization of collective memory in architecture is mainly used to analyze the architectural elements of the two tourism sites. Furthermore, the analysis also refers to Hobsbawn and Thompson‟s notion of cultural heritage and Leif Edvinson‟s images of the city. Research findings reveal that the city government constructs a dominant meaning of what they convey as cultural heritage by utilizing local laws and the authority from other regions which have more experiences in transforming their city into a city of cultural heritage. On the other hand, the people in Sawahlunto have their own understanding of what their city means for them in relation to their own cultural heritage. All in all, the complexity of the meaning-makitng process in the city‟s transformation between the government and the people could be read as a battleground of contesting discourses.

Inside out: what we (don’t) talk about when we talk about research

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Venka Simovska ◽  
Laila Colding Lagermann ◽  
Heba Salah Abduljalil ◽  
Line Lerche Mørck ◽  
Dorte Kousholt
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Research Practice ◽  
Deep Insight ◽  
Qualitative Researcher ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Good Quality Research ◽  
Collective Memory Work ◽  
Inside Out

In this article, we discuss issues that are rarely (if ever) talked about in research: experiences of deep insight and inspiration, of meaning-making, of embodied passion and of excitement related to the practice of engaging in qualitative research and of being a qualitative researcher. These are the ‘aha’ moments or ‘eureka’ experiences. Drawing on Frigga Haug’s collective memory work, five individual memories were articulated as text and analysed collectively over a period of six months. By analytically deploying the concept of generativity, we portray the tensions, dynamics and interactions that (co)create aha moments and movements as a way of enacting situated research(er) agency and of challenging the neoliberal instrumentalization of research and researchers. Our aim is to contribute to visualizing and fostering small but powerful steps in innovative, good quality research and bringing desire and passion (back) into research practice.

scholarly journals Subjective Well-Being Masyarakat Margorejo Kabupaten Kudus dalam Pelaksanaan Sedekah Bumi

ESOTERIK ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Hasan Bastomi
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The People ◽  
The Gift ◽  
The Village

<p class="06IsiAbstrak">Aims of the earth is a tradition of Javanese society that has been carried out for generations which is carried out every year by the Javanese people as a form of thanksgiving for the blessings given from the results of farming. Each region has its own peculiarities from the implementation of earth charity, including in the Village of Margorejo Dawe-Kudus. This study aims to determine the implementation of the earth alms ceremony and the Subjective Well-Being attitude of Margorejo-Kudus. This study uses qualitative methods with the type of Field Research research (field research) using descriptive analysis. The results of this study indicate that the tradition of the earth that held once a year, on <em>Apid</em> month (<em>Dhulkaidah</em>) shows the tradition of agrarian socity. The meaning contained in the implementation of the earth charity tradition, namely the meaning of the implementation of earth alms (Nyadran) for the people of Margorejo, Kudus, to show their gratitude for the gift given by Sang The Creator and the Older. In the implementation of the alms of the earth of the people of Margorejo Village, the Holy feels subjective well-being in the form of gratitude, calmness and happiness.</p>

scholarly journals BENCANA DAN PERUBAHAN IDENTITAS DESA BULAK 1971-2000an

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Muhammad Alfan Jazli ◽  
Emy Wuryani
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Social History ◽  
Source Tracking ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Historical Method ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
The Village

This article discusses the history of the disaster that struck the Bulak Village in the area of Jepara, Central Java, Indonesia in the 1971-2000s period. Disasters that continue to occur in the village of Bulak force villagers to move to the new village location. The new village was named after Desa Bulak Baru as a sign that the name of Desa Bulak Baru was not part of the expansion of the old village, but as a collective memory of the name of their previous village. To see that change, the writer sees it in the lens of migration in the local definition, namely village bedol. Bedol Desa is a term for the people of the villages in Java who migrate. The study of village bedol events in the perspective of social history studies. In 1981 a village bedol event occurred in Bulak Village, Jepara Regency. The destination of the bedol desa is the location Desa Bulak Baru. Naming that includes a change of identity, but does not eliminate the old name as the historical basis of a Bulak Village. The method used in this study is the historical method, which includes: (1) heuristics or source tracking, (2) source criticism to verify the information obtained, (3) analysis, and (4) historiography or historical writing.

scholarly journals Border and Memory in the village of Koshovice

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Vasilaki ◽  
Maritina Vlachaki ◽  
Nicos Koutsourakis
Keyword(s):  
Collective Memory ◽  
Local Perceptions ◽  
Socialist State ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Borderland Communities ◽  
The Village ◽  
Inter State

This article focuses on the village of Koshovice, Albania, where its residents are part of the officially recognized Greek minority. The local perceptions of the community are discussed as linked to the Albanian-Greek border and its presence in the collective memory. After the borderline creation in 1913, local residents were divided between the two neighboring countries. The ethnographic data collected underline the experiences and the everyday practices of the villagers of Koshovice, especially during the period of the Albanian socialist state between 1945 and 1991, when the border became almost impenetrable. The article then discusses the changes after the fall of socialism and the opening of the border in the early 1990s, especially showing how the local borderland communities are still connected nowadays to each other despite the inter-state division.

Paradigma Pembangunan Desa dalam Pengelolaan Keuangan Desa Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 Tentang Desa

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-132
Author(s):  
Betha Rahmasari
Keyword(s):  
Regional Development ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Village Community ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village

This article aims to find out the developmentidea or paradigm through village financial management based on Law Number 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. In this study, the researcher used a normative research methodby examining the village regulations in depth. Primary legal materials are authoritatuve legal materials in the form of laws and regulations. Village dependence is the most obvious violence against village income or financial sources. Various financial assistance from the government has made the village dependent on financial sources from the government. The use of regional development funds is intended to support activities in the management of Regional Development organizations. Therefore, development funds should be managed properly and smoothly, as well as can be used effectively to increase the people economy in the regions. This research shows that the law was made to regulate and support the development of local economic potential as well as the sustainable use of natural resources and the environment, and that the village community has the right to obtain information and monitor the planning and implementation of village development.

PENGARUH KEBUDAYAAN ASING DALAM PEMBENTUKAN RAGAM HIAS PELAMINAN NAREH PARIAMAN

CORAK ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nofi Rahmanita
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
The People ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Village

The Handicraft of embroidery “palaminan” in Nareh Pariaman is an old culture product which is used for social purposes. As the time goes, now, the “palaminan” is not only used by the king or noblesse. Right now, it has been used in mostly wedding parties of Minangkabau tradition. It is used as the seat of the bride groom and bride who are called king and queen for a day. Regarding this theme, when we see the several various of palaminan, it looks like been influenced by the Chinese and Hindi/Gujarat Custom. Such as phoenix 9(bird) and lion decorated at the “palaminan”, or for the Gujarat custom, there are embroidery with mirrors that decorate the palaminan. The mirror embroidered for the people of Nareh Pariaman has the meaning “suluah bendang” in the village. The art of embroidery palaminan Nareh Pariaman has many structures which are connected to each other. They can not be separated in each use. The structures are decorated by the many kinds of Minangkabau decoration. Most of the decorating comes from application of the Minangkabau’sphilosophy known as “alam takambang Jadi Guru”. The philosophy has symbolic meaning that contains some lessons about managing humans life, especially for people of Nareh Pariaman.Keywords: beyond culture, motif, pelaminan

Etos Kerja Islam Dan Ketahanan Usaha Kerajinan Tangan

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Ubaidillah ◽  
Misbahul Khoir
Keyword(s):  
Group Discussion ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Religious Rituals ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Village ◽  
Collection Methods

The objectives of research include; first, to describe what local Islamic working ethos are as the basis for the resilience of songkok, whip and slap handicraft businesses in Serah Panceng Gresik Village. Second, to describe the resilience of the songkok, whip and slap handicraft business in the village of Serah Panceng Gresik. This study is a qualitative-descriptive study with the aim of understanding the phenomena experienced by the subject of research including behavior, perception, motivation, and action holistically by utilizing various scientific methods. Data collection methods include; Observation, In-depth Interview or Focus Group Discussion, Documentation. Data analysis techniques include: processing and preparing data for analysis, reading the entire data, analyzing in more detail by coding data, considering detailed instructions that can help the coding process, giving descriptions that will be presented in the report, interpreting and interpreting data. The results showed that in Serah Village local Islamic working ethos were preserved by the community, such as alms giving, reading dziba', reading tahlil, attending haul akbar, and reading sholawat together every Friday. Although in the tradition it does not involve songkok, whip, and slap directly, there is a good impact to support the resilience of songkok, but not whip, and slap production. Religious rituals by praying together asking Allah to facilitate and carry out business in production songkok, whip, and slap are an expression of gratitude for what God gave to the people of Serah Village. All economic activity done by Serah community is meant to get God’s willing. Keywords: Islamic Working Ethos, Handicraft Businesses

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