Understanding Sitting Culture of Balinese Traditional Society

DOI

10.2991/reka-18.2018.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Balinese traditional society, sitting culture, caste hierarchy

Abstract

The position and placement of sitting down for traditional activities for Balinese society is being followed. Balinese people possess various names for sitting positions for men and women, that must be recognized and understand by members of the community. It is mentioned that to sit on the floor if conducting various sacred or profane activities, and discussion with priests/members of royalty. The result of descriptive qualitative analysis showed, the position and sitting posture matters towards one’s distance and angle, and determined through caste hierarchy. The shape of traditional Balinese house really takes into account the sitting concept, which is the distance between humans in relations to the space organization in conducting activities. The obedience of this sitting ethics has impacts for the experience, towards one’s moral values, not only about appreciating caste hierarchy, but also the commitment to live harmoniously amongst members of society.

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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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TI  - Understanding Sitting Culture of Balinese Traditional Society
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Creative Media, Design and Technology (REKA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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