Ménréq Bola: Analyzing Artifacts in the Bugis Permission Request Tradition

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10.2991/978-2-38476-261-3_13How to use a DOI?

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Ménréq Bola; Artifacts; Permission Requests; Bugis Community

Abstract

Ménréq bola is a tradition of entering a new house. Each step of the ceremony involves objects that function as symbols of the hopes and perspectives of the Bugis community in addressing the phenomena of life, environment and beliefs. This type of research is qualitative with a qualitative descriptive approach. Applying interview and documentation techniques in data collection and analyzed based on Barthes’ theory of Signification. The results showed that artifacts used by Bugis people as non-verbal communication intermediaries consisted of 4 categories, namely fruit, food, tools and potions. The artifacts described in the research are not necessarily equipment found centuries ago. Rather, the result of community creation in the form of recipes, components and shapes obtained from the advice of the ancestors of the Bugis community. The fruit category indicates the most dominant basic ingredients used by the Bugis people in culinary processing, along with beliefs derived from the phenomenal Bugis literature La Galigo. The food category includes the meaning of basic ingredients, processing techniques and culinary forms, which have a relationship between name and meaning. The utensils category includes the universal functions and symbols that Bugis people assign to objects and ingredients as a sign of having asked permission from other God's creatures.

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AU  - Sari Hidayati
AU  - Nurhayati Rahman
AU  - Fathu Rahman
AU  - Muhlis Hadrawi
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/06/21
TI  - Ménréq Bola: Analyzing Artifacts in the Bugis Permission Request Tradition
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Halal Development (4th ICHaD 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 142
EP  - 154
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-261-3_13
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-261-3_13
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