Book
Some social-anthropological observations of gotong rojong practices in two villages of central Java
Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Far Eastern Studies, Cornell University • Ithaca, N.Y. • Published In 1961 • Pages: viii, 67
By: Koentjaraningrat.
Abstract
Koentjaraningrat documents the incidence of gotong rojong, a form of community mutual aid, in the two villages of Tjelapar and Wadjasari. Gotong rojong appears to take seven major forms: activities which emerge surrounding death or a family calamity, activities undertaken by the entire community because of public necessity, activities which occur when a villager initiates a feast, activities related to the care and cleaning of ancestral graves, activities necessitated by a villager needing home repair work, activities evoked during times of heightened agricultural production, and activities based on “the duty of the Kuli class to contribute manpower for the benefit of the community.” Each of the villages is described in terms of location, inhabitants, kinship ties, hamlet bonds, land owners, sources of income, and daily activities. The author concludes the “On the whole, comparison between the two village communities has given us the impression that in village communities where the villagers’ livelihood does not depend solely on agriculture, but where they can find additional income in towns, the frequency of gotong rojong declines.”
- HRAF PubDate
- 2019
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Types
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Del Childs ; Jan Simpson ; 1982
- Field Date
- 1958-1959
- Coverage Place
- villages of Tjelapar and Wadjasari in the regency of Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia
- Notes
- Koentjaraningrat ; translated by Claire Holt
- Several of the long footnotes have been marked as text.
- Related Titles: Gotong rojong practices in two villages of Central Java
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67)
- LCCN
- 62000796
- LCSH
- Javanese (Indonesian people)/Cooperation--Indonesia--Case studies