Gogok War Tradition as a Way of Local Culture Preservation in Globalization Era: A Study of Anthropolinguistics on Buara People, Brebes

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10.2991/icille-18.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

local culture, Gogok war, and anthropolinguistics discussion

Abstract

Indonesia is a country which has culture diversity in every region of the nation, each culture has their own unique and characteristics which can differ from other regions. Culture is shaped by the habit of the people that have the same principle which understand and interact to each other. Therefore, culture of a certain people will show as their identity. In the era of advance science and globalization, local culture may be neglected by people so that the tradition value starts fading. However, there will be certain people that preserve their local wisdom. One of these people is people in Buara Village, Ketangggungan, Brebes. They still practice a tradition which is inherited from the past generation in a wedding ceremony, namely Gogok War. Gogok war is a dance which is performed by two males in a wedding ceremony after the groom and bridesmaid say a promise that they will be together forever. The dance tries to tell people about bad and good behavior. This study belongs to qualitative research which aims to, 1) know the history of Gogok War in wedding ceremony of Buara village people in Ketanggungan, Brebes, 2) know the practice in a more detail process, 3) describe how people in Buara village preserve the Gogok War tradition. The result of the study is expected to increase the knowledge about culture diversity in Indonesia which is still practiced until now in Buara Village. The people of the village still practice the tradition of Gogok War as a way to preserve local culture in the era of globalization and still hold the belief of the tradition from the past generation.

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© 2019, 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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