Tobacco Farming Ritual Among Tebal in Temanggung: From Individual Ritual to Communal Performance as Safeguarding Effort

Keywords

ritual, tobacco farmer, performance, safeguarding.

Abstract

Most of the tobacco farmers in Temanggung regency of Central Java perform rituals during the farming of tobacco, dry season plants that are planted and harvested once a year. The rituals accompany the process of farming tobacco, starting from nyecel or land preparation in December-January followed by planting the seeds in each farmer’s house, then continued with among tebal: tobacco seeds planted for the first time as a sign of the start of the tobacco season, then finally tungguk ritual of harvesting tobacco. This rituals performed by the adherents of Islam Aboge (Alip Rebo Wage) are substantively a personal ritual, but then turned into communal ritual. This research used qualitative method with an ethnography approach by in depth interviews and participative observation. The concepts used are oral tradition approach and performance studies. The result showed, the individual rituals that were simultaneously changed into communal rituals were actually became performance of ritual, and the change is one of the efforts to safeguard the rituals from extinction.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Susi Ivvaty
AU  - Pudentia Pudentia
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Tobacco Farming Ritual Among Tebal in Temanggung: From Individual Ritual to Communal Performance as Safeguarding Effort
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 121
EP  - 130
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906077
ID  - Ivvaty2018/11
ER  -