The Economic Strength in Minangkabau Oral Literature

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10.2991/icla-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

oral literature, money, economic strenght, culture.

Abstract

This paper discusses economic power in Minangkabau oral literature. The case is the oral literature bagurau. Oral literature consists not only of text, but also of context. The text and context contain economic power, which drives the oral literature and wheels of the collective economy of its audiences. The research method used is qualitative. This study observes some of the oral literary utterances of the bagurau that the audience perceives. The narrative is held at night in different places in the Minangkabau cultural area in West Sumatra Province. This analysis uses the theory of structural functionalism. This study finds that in the context of oral literature narrative bagurau always happen money circulation. The money, acting as participation in the creation of oral literary texts and direct transactions between people and people collectively. The money affects the economy of society at large, both in the context of direct and beyond the narrative of oral literature. In every narrative of oral literature there is a large circulation of money and is economically beneficial to the sustainability of oral literature and Minangkabau culture.

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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  - Khairil ANWAR
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - The Economic Strength in Minangkabau Oral Literature
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 238
EP  - 242
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icla-17.2018.41
DO  - 10.2991/icla-17.2018.41
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