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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, Holt, Claire.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.”
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Mutual aid
- Cultural participation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Javanese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Del Childs ; Jan Simpson ; 1982
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1958-1959
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- villages of Tjelapar and Wadjasari in the regency of Kebumen, Central Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- Koentjaraningrat ; translated by Claire Holt
- Related Titles: Gotong rojong practices in two villages of Central Java
- Several of the long footnotes have been marked as text.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 66-67)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 62000796
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)/Cooperation--Indonesia--Case studies