Motifs of Narrative Structure of Sacred Tombs in Surabaya

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10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.102How to use a DOI?

Keywords

folklore; legend; sacred tomb; narrative structure motif

Abstract

The sacred tomb is a kind of legend which contains semi-historical stories describing the actions of heroes, population movements, and the creation of local customs. The study of narrative motifs was conducted to investigate typology of folklore: its origin, acculturation, and metamorphosis (Alan Dundes in [1, p. 116]). Reasearch on the origin of the sacred tombs in Surabaya aims at collecting and classifying motifs on historical typology of its existence. This study adopts Spradley’s ethnography method for data collection and text construction, and qualitative descriptive method for analysis of the narrative motifs or typology. This study found three narrative structure motifs. The first motif is that the deceased were historical figures in past kingdom, God’s messegers, and local community figures. The second motif is that the theme of the narrative represents the figures as religious heroes who fought against spiritual darkness, Islamic prechers, pioneers of new settlements. In relation to the second motif, the third motif is that the figures are endowed with supernatural power and charisma in their missions that their tombs are considered sacred.

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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  - Sudarwati Sudarwati
AU  - Anik Cahyaning Rahayu
AU  - Novi Andari
PY  - 2018/07
DA  - 2018/07
TI  - Motifs of Narrative Structure of Sacred Tombs in Surabaya
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference of Communication Science Research (ICCSR 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 460
EP  - 464
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.102
DO  - 10.2991/iccsr-18.2018.102
ID  - Sudarwati2018/07
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