Symbolic Patterning in Angkola Batak Adat Ritual
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3633637 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Rodger (0000-0002-1544-8743), Susan Rodgers (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 765-778 |
| Publication date | 1985-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2056447 |
| OpenAlex | W2335645522 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
In Sumatra's Angkola Batak culture, rituals celebrating major kinship-related events such as marriage have many layers of social and symbolic meaning; they have political, kinship, musical, mythic, and philosophical dimensions as lengthy, oratory-filled ceremonies that unite wife-giving lineages with wife-receivers. This article examines several ways that the interpretive approach that is discussed in the introduction can help students of Indonesian ritual grasp diverse aspects of Batak marriage rituals such as their hidden symbolic organization and their practical political implications. The article deals with a short sequence ofadatdance staged for anthropological research purposes. (Adat, once translated as customary law, roughly means Angkola ceremonial life, kinship norms, and political thought;adatis eminently flexible, redefined by each Batak generation.) The choreography of the dance (wife-receivers dancing with wife-givers), songs, clothing, the political biographies of the participants, and the fact that the event was staged render the ceremony open to both structural and social contextual inquiry
Aesthetics · Art · Ceremony · Choreography · Dance · Epistemology · Indonesian · Kinship · Linguistics · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · The Symbolic · Wife · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Philosophy · Psychology
The model of the text
Culture and Communication
Ethnic and Tourist Arts
Structural Aspects of East Sumbanese Art
Interpretive Social Science
The Imagination of Reality
Deep play
A Modern Batak Horja
The Flow of Life
Orality, Literacy, and Batak Concepts of Marriage Alliance
Chamula Genres of Verbal Behavior
The Rites of Passage
The Flow of Life
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |