essay
The Javanese of south central Java
Social structure in Southeast Asia • New York • Published In 1960 • Pages: 88-115, 162-163
By: Koentjaraningrat.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study, written by a native Javanese who is a trained anthropologist, describes the systems of kinship and marriage of South Central java. Good summary descriptions are given of social stratification, the structure of the ndesa (a self-sustaining village community), the life cycle in terms of typical customs, inheritance of property within the family, and kinship behavior and terminology. Notes on differences in sociocultural usages between various subdivisions of the population are provided throughout.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Classes
- Status, role, and prestige
- Religious denominations
- General character of religion
- Childbirth
- Infant care
- Regulation of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Status and treatment of the aged
- Senescence
- Sociolinguistics
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnographer
- 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
- David F. Sherwood ; John Beierle ; 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 Madjasari, south central Java, Indonesia
- NotesAdditional notes
- R. M. Koentjaraningrat
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Javanese (Indonesian people)