The Duality Conception on Ngaju Dayak Thoughts in Central Kalimantan

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10.2991/amca-18.2018.2How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Duality, Conception, Ngaju Dayak, Cosmology, and Central Kalimantan

Abstract

This paper attempts to reveal the duality conception in NgajuDayak culture in Central Kalimantan. The duality or in another discipline such as linguistics refers to binary opposition. The emergence of the duality terms initially refers to cosmological system, thatis the universe has a dichotomous dimension. This cosmic universe consists of two oppositional components which are essentially complementary and unified. In Indonesia the duality coceptionas discussed in this paper is basically not merely within the NgajuDayak culture, but italso can be found in other cultures such as Javanese culture as well as Banjarese culture. For instance, Javanese culture has the duality concept between the sky, that is represented as father, and the world is represented as motherland. While in Banjarese culture, there is the duality between tubaniyah(amniotic fluid)withtambuniyah(placenta). In revealing the duality conception, this study applies the structural method, developed by Levi Strauss.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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