scholarly journals Biyanaam: A unique element of Assamese Culture; Understanding, Discussion and Preservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 3983-3987
Author(s):  
Lotika Saikia
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Unique Element ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Collective Emotions ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Folk Literature ◽  
Wedding Songs

Folk literature has come to be identified as one of the priceless resources of an indigenous community. Folk literature is an important carrier of culture, heritage and tradition of a particular cultural or linguistic community. In this context, Assamese „Biyanaam‟ are one type of Folk literature which falls into this mentioned description. The biyanam presented during such ceremonies reflect the socio-cultural life of the Assamese community. This trend showcases the myths, outfits, jewellery, food habits, the cultural ethos etc. This folk songs are called ‘Biyanaam’ (Marriage songs) as they are sung or played only on occasions of marriage ceremony. Rather it is the reflection of collective emotions as well as collective consciousness of Assamese people surfacing as or in the form of oral literature. It transforms and travels along with the changing currents of time. The „biyanaam‟ or “wedding songs” sung in a traditional Assamese wedding ceremony is an integral part of Assamese culture. An Assamese wedding household is practically incomplete without these wedding songs that are sung throughout various ceremonies by the ladies present there.

Syair Sufistik Kyai Djamal dalam Perspektif Strukturalisme Levi-Strauss

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-414
Author(s):  
Siswoyo Aris Munandar ◽  
Elia Malikhaturrahmah
Keyword(s):  
Folk Songs ◽  
Preliminary Review ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Regional Literature ◽  
The Third ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

The fact is that many young Javanese today do not know wayang characters, wayang stories, folk songs, and children's games. This proves the lack of appreciation of the younger generation for studying literature and culture in their region. They consider that regional literature is ancient and out of date. This causes regional literature and culture to gradually become extinct. Syi'ir Jawi Budi Utami is oral literature written by Kiai Djamal. This research was conducted as an effort to understand syi'ir Kiai Djamal by using the Levi-Strauss structuralism analysis which examines literary works not only from the literary field but also from the field of anthropology. The author focuses this research on two problem formulations, namely, why did Kiai Djamal write syi'ir Jawi Budi Utami and what is the structure of syir Jawi Budi Utami. The method used for data collection is documentation and is processed by descriptive-analytical methods. The purpose of this research is to enrich the discourse and insight into the study of the concept of Levi-Strauss structuralism as well as as a reference or preliminary review for the development of studies on the Sufistic syi'ir of Kiai Djamal in Levi-Strauss structuralism, on the one hand, the application of Levi-Strauss structuralism analysis to other objects. This research found that the principles of writing syi'ir Kiai Djamal consist of five episodes, namely: first Kiai Djamal introduces the phases of a Muslim, namely syari'ah, thoriqoh, and haqiqoh. The second episode of Kiai Djamal introduces one of the tarekat, namely the Syadziliyyah Tarekat, followed by the following chapters regarding the explanation of the Syadziliyyah Tarekat. The third episode is the Qodiriyah Order. The fourth episode is the Tarekat An-Naqsabandiyah in brief. The fifth episode is a continuous explanation of the previous chapter. This shows the structure of writing Syi'ir Kiai Djamal. Also, the researcher sees that the context in syi'ir Kiai Djamal is an unconscious reflection of Kiai Djamal with the discovery of signifier and signified, langue and parole, form and content and phonemes in syi'ir Kiai Sufistik Djamal. Faktanya anak-anak muda Jawa saat ini banyak yang tidak mengenal tokoh-tokoh wayang, cerita wayang, lagu daerah, dan dolanan anak. Hal ini membuktikan kurangnya apresiasi generasi muda untuk mempelajari sastra dan budaya daerahnya sendiri. Mereka menganggap bahwa sastra daerah bersifat kuno dan ketinggalan zaman.  Hal ini menyebabkan sastra dan budaya daerah lambat laun akan mengalami kepunahan. Syi’ir Jawi Budi Utami merupakan salah satu sastra lisan yang ditulis oleh Kiai Djamal. Penelitian ini dilakukan sebagai upaya untuk memahami syi’ir Kiai Djamal dengan menggunakan analisis strukturalisme Levi-Strauss yang mengkaji karya sastra tidak hanya dari bidang sastra saja tetapi juga dari bidang antropologi. Penulis memfokuskan penelitian ini pada dua rumusan masalah yaitu, mengapa Kiai Djamal menulis syi’ir Jawi Budi Utami dan bagaimana struktur dalam syir Jawi Budi Utami. Metode yang digunakan untuk pengumpulan data adalah dokumentasi, dan diolah dengan metode deskriptif analitis. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah memperkaya wacana dan wawasan tentang kajian konsep strukturalisme Levi-Strauss serta sebagai referensi atau tinjauan awal untuk pengembangan kajian atas syi’ir sufistik Kiai Djamal dalam strukturalisme Levi-Strauss di satu sisi, aplikasi analisis strukturalisme Levi-Strauss terhadap objek lain.  Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa prinsip penulisan syi’ir Kiai Djamal terdapat lima episode, yaitu: pertama Kiai Djamal memperkenalkan fase-fase seorang muslim yaitu syari’ah, thoriqoh dan haqiqoh. Episode kedua Kiai Djamal memperkenalkan salah satu tarekat yaitu Tarekat Syadziliyyah disusul bab-bab setelahnya mengenai penjelasan Tarekat Syadziliyyah. Episode ketiga adalah Tarekat Qodiriyah. Episode keempat adalah Tarekat An-Naqsabandiyah secara singkat. Episode kelima adalah penjelasan bab sebelumnya secara sambung  menyambung. Hal ini menunjukkan struktur dari penulisan Syi’ir Kiai Djamal. Selain itu peneliti melihat bahwa konteks yang ada dalam syi’ir Kiai Djamal merupakan cerminan nirsadar dari Kiai Djamal dengan ditemukannya signifier dan signified, langue dan parole, form dan content serta fonem dalam syi’ir Kiai Sufistik Djamal.  

The Media and the Arts

2007 ◽  
pp. 139-161
Author(s):  
Nadia Malinovich
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Life ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Religious Orientations ◽  
Jewish Art ◽  
Jewish Music ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Media

This chapter focuses on the expansion of the Jewish press, the development of a lively Jewish art and music scene, and the strengthening of the interfaith movement. It discloses the creation of a wide variety of journals of differing Zionist, literary, and religious orientations that marked an important change in contemporary French Jewish life. It also investigates the journals that served as a vehicle to discuss new developments in the Jewish associational and cultural life of the day and provided a forum to discuss diverse aspects of Jewish culture and history. The chapter discusses the prominence of Jewish artists in the international Ecole de Paris as another important development in Jewish cultural life during the 1920s. It also describes French Jews that formed musical societies and choruses to perform Jewish music, from traditional religious compositions to Yiddish folk songs, in public settings.

Rachmiel Peltz, From immigrant to ethnic culture: American Yiddish in South Philadelphia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 263. Hb $49.50, pb $18.95.

2000 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-150
Author(s):  
Miriam Isaacs
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Stanford University ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Real Estate Investments

South Philadelphia can be added to the littered landscape of Jewish geography, in which Chelm, Belz, Odessa, Boiberik, and Brownsville are terrain abandoned by Jews. They are romanticized in folk songs, but they make poor real estate investments. Similarly, Yiddish cultural life may be seen as a landscape of outmoded lifeways. The Yiddish language and its dialects have been cast off, but at the same time they remain cherished in memory. Peltz's ethnography explores Yiddish as it survives among what is left of a Yiddish-speaking community in Philadelphia. The story of Yiddish is one of powerlessness; Peltz takes us to the seemingly marginal Jews, the yidelekh – working-class, elderly women and men who are marginalized as a function of their old age, their accents, and their lack of higher education.

Indexing of Folk and Oral Literature in the Islamdominated Cultural Area

1996 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-116
Author(s):  
Heda Jason
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Folk Literature

Galland's translation of the Arabian Nights in the eighteenth century brought to the wider European readership an awareness of the wealth of written folk literature of medieval provenance in the Near and Middle East. During the Romantic movement, popular translations or rewritings from Arabic, Turkish and Persian medieval folk literatures proliferated (see Appendix 1 below, Chauvin, no. 6; Marzolph, no. 10).

scholarly journals Representation of the Concept Jumo "God" in Mari Folk Songs

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-44
Author(s):  
Lubov Alekseevna Abukaeva
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
Continuous Sampling ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Wedding Songs

The article is devoted to the analysis of the religious views of Mari, which are reflected in such genres of folklore as guest and wedding songs. The purpose of the article is to identify ways and means of representing the concept of humo «god» in Mari folk songs. Research methods: continuous sampling, comparative method, component analysis. Results, discussion. The following characters of the Mari pantheon are represented in the songs: the Bright God, the predecessor, the mother of God, the mother of the earth, the mother of wealth, the angel, the daughter of God, the prophet, the daughter of the prophet, the son of the prophet, and the bridegroom prophet. Conclusion. The content of folk songs also presents some stories from mythology, fragments of religious rites and the foundations of the creed of the Mari traditional religion.

scholarly journals Research Approaches «Memory Studies» In the Study of Reverse Socio-Cultural Processes in Modern Russian Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatiana V. Pushkareva ◽  
◽  
Darya V. Agaltsova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Memory Studies ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The Social

Reverse processes in the public socio-cultural life of modern Russia are associated with the revival of a number of contradictory past values: the Soviet society ideals (the social experiment of building socialism ended twenty years ago, and before that it lasted more than 70 years); religious Orthodox revival (focused on the values of pre-revolutionary Russia before 1917); the development of traditional folk culture (transferring the value horizon into pre-Christian Slavic culture). The purpose of the article is to show how historical memory “lives” in the collective consciousness of modern Russians, how the archaization processes of historical memory and memorial practices are implemented at various social levels – from individual families (family memory), lower social cells (the level of municipalities, local clubs, schools), to federal school textbooks and national holidays. And turning to the analysis of Russian reality through the approaches of “memory studies” can have serious heuristic potential.

scholarly journals REPRESENTATION OF DEATH EXPERIENCE IN THE S.SALGADO’S CREATIVE HERITAGE

2020 ◽  
pp. 74-90
Author(s):  
Игорь Леонидович Крупник ◽  
Светлана Павловна Карпухина
Keyword(s):  
Central Africa ◽  
Documentary Photography ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
Indirect Methods ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Attitude Towards Death ◽  
Death Experience ◽  
Historical Periods

В данной статье рассматриваются специфические особенности визуализации смерти в XX веке на примере фотографического наследия Себастьяно Сальгадо. Изучая смерть как один из ключевых элементов коллективного сознания, французский исследователь Филипп Арьес выделяет пять исторических этапов развития и изменения отношения человека к смерти. ХХ век, трагически прославившийся многочисленными войнами и драматическими событиями, повлекшими за собой массовые человеческие жертвы, согласно исследователю, становится временем «смерти перевернутой». Вытеснение смерти на периферию социальной и культурной жизни, которое заметил Ф. Арьес, отражает чувство страха перед смертью, ставшей табуированной и не заслуживающей внимания темой. Стремление к дистанцированию от смерти приводит к тому, что она становится доступной только при использовании различных опосредований, одним из которых является фотография, а медиатизация смерти позволяет создать ощущение подвластности данного феномена человеку, прирученности. В творчестве широко известного бразильского фотографа Себастьяно Сальгадо можно выявить ряд острых фотографических серий, посвященных визуализации мортальности различными способами. Фотографические образы смерти, созданные бразильским фотографом, становятся отражением опыта переживания и осмысления смерти. Обратив внимание на фотографические серии из Южной и Центральной Америки и Африки, можно увидеть, что образ смерти, став связующей нитью в творчестве Сальгадо, получает различные способы репрезентации. Основными способами отображения темы смерти становятся эстетизация и стремление к абстрактности контекста, за которые его работы подвергаются многочисленной критике. Фотографическое наследие Сальгадо становится важным звеном между документальной фотографией военных лет, вынужденно несущей в себе образы смерти, и виртуальными изображениями смерти в современных медиа. This article addresses the specific features of visualization of death in the 20th century on the example of the photographic heritage of Sebastião Salgado. Studying death as one of the key elements of collective consciousness French scholar Ph. Aries distinguishes five historical periods of development and modification of the attitude towards death. XX century is tragically known for its numerous wars and dramatic events resulting in massive loss of life and - following the scholar - became the time of “reversed death”. Displacement of death to the periphery of social and cultural life which was noted by Aries, shows the feeling of fear of death which became not worth mentioning taboo. The effort to distance ourselves from death leads to the fact that death becomes available only with help of various indirect methods such as photography. Mediatization of death allows to create a feeling of control over that phenomenon. In creative works of widely known Brazilian photographer S. Salgado one can identify a number of different series dedicated to visualization of mortality. Photo images of death created by the Brazilian photographer become a projection and conceptualization of death. Looking at photo series from South and Central Africa and America one can conclude that the image of death – the central theme of Salgado’s work – gets various ways of representation. The main ways of representation of death became aestheticization and the quest for abstract context for which his works are seriously criticized. The photographic heritage of Sebastião Salgado became an important link between documentary photography of wartime involuntarily filled with images of death and virtual images of death in modern media.

scholarly journals PENDIDIKAN SPIRITUAL KEAGAMAAN MELALUI SASTRA DAERAH: DESKRIPSI DAN ANALISIS TEKS SASTRA LISAN BAUDA

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Fatmahwati A. Fatmahwati A.
Keyword(s):  
Character Education ◽  
Moral Education ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Spiritual Power ◽  
Local Literature ◽  
Culture Heritage ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The Individual

Abstrak         Pendidikan Spiritual Keagamaan melalui Sastra Daerah: Deskripsi dan Analisis Teks Sastra Lisan Bauda. Pendidikan dianggap sebagai alternatif yang bersifat preventif untuk membangun moral generasi muda sehingga dapat meminimalkan penyebab berbagai masalah budaya dan karakter bangsa. Salah satu sumber belajar untuk memberikan pendidikan moral adalah warisan budaya berupa sastra lisan yang mengandung gagasan dan makna filosofis yang berakar dari budaya lokal. Sastra lisan bauda merupakan salah satu warisan budaya masyarakat Melayu Tapung di Provinsi Riau yang menyampaikan petuah dan nasihat, aturan adat, dan kisah-kisah yang mengandung hikmah. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis nilai-nilai spiritual keagamaan dan pendidikan moral yang terkandung dalam sastra lisan bauda. Rancangan penelitian ini dalam bentuk deskriptif kualitatif yang memaparkan dan menganalisis data sesuai dengan tujuan penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa sastra lisan bauda memuat nilai-nilai pendidikan agama yang dapat digunakan untuk meningkatkan kekuatan spiritual. Pendidikan karakter melalui sastra lisan ini diharapkan mampu membentuk pribadi yang memiliki akhlak mulia, pengendalian diri, kecerdasan, dan keterampilan yang diperlukan dirinya, masyarakat, bangsa dan negara.Kata kunci: Pendidikan, spiritual keagamaan, sastra lisan, Bauda Abstract Religious Spiritual Education through Local Literature: Description and Analysis of Oral literature Bauda.   Education is considered as alternative which is preventive to build young generation moral so it can minimized the cause of various culture problems and nation character.  One of learning resource to provide moral education is culture heritage in the form of oral literature which contain ideas and meaning of philosophy which are rooted from local culture.  Oral literature bauda is one of culture heritage of Melayu Tapung community in Riau Province which convey advise and message, custom rule, and stories which contain wisdom.  The aim of this study is analyze values of religious spiritual and moral education which are contained in oral literature bauda. The design of this study is in the form of qualitative descriptive which explain and analyze data in accord with the aim of study.  The result of study show that oral literature bauda contain religion education values which can be used to enhance the spiritual power.  Character education through this oral literature is hope capable to shape the individual who have lofty behavior, self control, intelligence, and skill which are needed by him/herself, society, nation and country.Keywords: Education, religious spiritual, oral literature, Bauda

TRADISI LISAN: SATU PENILAIAN SEMULA

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-205
Author(s):  
SYED ABDULLAH BIN SYED SULAIMAN
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Folk Literature

Artikel ini membicarakan satu aspek daripada tradisi lisan iaitu kesusasteraan rakyat atau sastera rakyat yang juga dikenali sebagai sastera lisan. Kesusasteraan rakyat adalah terjemahan daripada bahasa Inggeris Folk Literature. Tradisi lisan merupakan khazanah warisan budaya bangsa yang tidak ternilai harganya. Justeru ia perlu dipertahankan, diperelokkan, digali, dicari dan didokumentasikan dalam pelbagai versi. Kita harus melihat tradisi lisan bukan lagi sebagai suatu produk yang tidak menyumbangkan apa-apa pulangan dalam bentuk ekonomi tetapi perlu diolah melalui daya kreativiti untuk menghasilkan ekonomi.   This article discusses one aspect of the oral tradition of folk literature or people literature which is also known as oral literature. Kesusateraan rakyat is a translation of the English Folk Literature. The oral tradition is the nation's cultural heritage that is priceless. Therefore it must be defended, improved, searched and documented in various versions. Oral tradition should be seen no more as a product of no contribution to the economy but should be treated with creativity in order to contribute to the economy.

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