This book covers the relationship between societies and their culture in the context of traditional settlement in Indonesia. The focus of the study is on the search for meanings of local concepts. This study reveals and analyzes the concepts concerning home and their sociocultural strategies for maintaining a sense of community and identity. In this study, identifying local concepts becomes the hallmark and the hub of analyses that explore, verify and establish relations between ideas and phenomena. Based on these relations, this study attempts to capture the reality of the local world that upholds and sustains the communities' values, norms and principles for what they may call a homeland. The book is organized into two parts. Part I describes a cross-regional habitation in Indonesia, while Part II presents four ethnic regions of Indonesia - Sa'dan Toraja, Bali, Naga and Minangkabau. Their unique traditions, customs, beliefs and attitudes serve to provide diversity in terms of their backgrounds and lifestyles, though they share the challenge of sustaining their sense of home in the face of modernity as characterized by changes and developments toward a technologically industrialized society. The central research questions are - What is development in terms of culture and environmental sustainability? How do these communities respond to modernity?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN-13
9789814585040
eBay Product ID (ePID)
190925241
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Social Organisations
Author
Bagoes Wiryomartono
Publication Name
Perspectives on Traditional Settlements and Communities: Home, Form and Culture in Indonesia
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Archaeology, Anthropology
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
155mm
Item Weight
483g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Bagoes Wiryomartono
Country/Region of Manufacture
Singapore
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