A Batak Literature of Modernization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7296649 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susan Rodgers Siregar (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Pages | 137-137 |
| Publication date | 1981-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indonesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7289 • E-ISSN: 2164-8654 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3351018 |
| OpenAlex | W2319738077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In a gathering of Batak village grandmothers in my house in 1976 to tape record some traditional ritual speech, one old ompul took the time to survey the changes in Batak kinship she had witnessed in her lifetime. Like many of her contemporaries, she spoke warmly of the more orderly kinship world of her childhood, when people still married who they should. She contrasted this halcyon age to presentday conditions: young people were marrying against the grain of the adat, households were ignoring their adat obligations to lend labor assistance to relatives in favor of concentrating on their own fields and farmwork, and her neighbors were beginning to forget some of the courtly eulogistic terms once used in addressing kinsmen. Fixing me with a stare and breaking out of her customary Angkola Batak2 into Indonesian, she delivered a final withering epithet on modern-day Batak family life: just one quality characterized it, Merdeka di segalagala-Freedom in everything
Business · Modernization theory · Political science · Asian Studies and History
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
| Citation span | 1984 - 1986 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |