ORANG KALANG, CINA, DAN BUDAYA PASAR DI PEDESAAN JAWA
ABSTRACT: This essay is a
preliminary analysis on social condition of Chinese people as well as the
Kalang of Java in relation to their social identity as ‘merchant family’. Both
of them are minority groups of people in rural Java. Though ethnographical
research in a Javanese village in Banyumas District, Central Java for four
months, I realised that the Chinese and the Kalang are identified by the
Javanese as ‘merchant family’ based on ‘market-place culture’ (budaya pasar).
Accordingly, market-place culture can be defined as collective way of life that
placed local trading activity and livelihood as a main socio-economic
orientation of the family. Meanwhile, the Javanese, as dominant ethnic group in
the village, see themselves and been seen by Chinese and the Kalangs as thani
or traditional land cultivator who hold ‘land-culture’ (budaya lahan) as their
main socio-economic orientation. Among their Javanese neighbours, the Chinese
and the Kalangs’ social identity is accepted through reproducing their myth of
origin and to differentiate their group norms and values.
Penulis: Dede Mulyanto
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd080035
