Dayak Culture

According Musdi Umberant and colleagues (in 1994) in his book "Cultural History of Borneo," published by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Dayak tribes can be divided into several groups: Ngaju, APU Kayan, Klematan, Murut, Punan, Iban Ot Danum. Among the tribes that the tribes have the most advanced Ngajulah than others. Dayak dearah living in the seaside raengalami many had a change of culture, due to acculturation by ethnic immigrants like Bugis, Madurese and Chinese.

Language

The language used by the Dayak Dayak is Barito language.


Kinship System

Dayak community kinship systems based on the principle of descent ambilineal system based on kinship lineages atua father or mother who is often called the bilateral kinship system

In the Dayak community, the ideal marriage and desire is the marriage of two cousins who his forefathers were siblings. Such marriages, called hujenan and discuss Ngaju (second-degree cousins). In addition, the marriage between two cousins who mothers siblings brothers and cross-causin also considered good. Dayak community in Central Kalimantan do not prohibit their girls to marry men of the nation Iain my case, provided the foreign men are willing to submit to the customs and living in their village (the home of the girl).

Marriage on the Dayak in Central Kalimantan are generally monogamous.

Religion

Native religion is the religion of the indigenous population Kaharingan, Kaharingan taken from Danum Kaharingan which means water of life. Kaharingan believe the people of the surrounding environment full of supernatural beings and spirits who occupy a house poles, boulders, large trees, shrub, water, and so on. Kaharingan can trust people viewed the ceremonies performed as a ceremony to welcome the birth of children, ritual bathing the baby for the first time, the baby's hair cutting ceremony, ceremony and bury cremation ceremony.

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