Circumcision Custom as the Cultural Symbol of the Dompu People, West Nusa Tenggara

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10.2991/assehr.k.210602.015How to use a DOI?

Keywords

circumcision, tradition, culture, Dompu

Abstract

The cultural resource of the people of a region can be seen from their customs and traditions. As a tradition, the circumcision custom is as result of the cultural diversity of this nation. Circumcision is one of the traditions of Dompu people which has been passed across generations and continuously developed and preserved by the people of Dompu. Circumcision is customary for the Muslim communities as it aims to clean or purify the children’s bodies. In addition to being a compulsory custom in Islam, circumcision also signifies the transition from the child age to adulthood. This means that the child should be ready to be mualaf who bears responsibilities and duties as a teenager. The method used in this study is the qualitative method with an ethnographic approach. The qualitative method aims to understand how certain phenomena occur and is based on data in words, documents, or videos obtained from the research site, which is processed into the research results. These data were collected through interviews with the community elders and figures at the research site, observations by attending a circumcision ceremony, and documentations (taking pictures, videos, or recording the circumcision ceremony using mobile and electronic devices). On the other hand, ethnography is an approach that examines the culture of a community. As the circumcision custom is a part of the traditions of the Dompu people, it certainly contains cultural elements related to the life of the local community.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Reni Anggriani
AU  - Hadjar pamadi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/06/04
TI  - Circumcision Custom as the Cultural Symbol of the Dompu People, West Nusa Tenggara
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts and Arts Education (ICAAE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 79
EP  - 82
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210602.015
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210602.015
ID  - Anggriani2021
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