Reaffirmation of Identity Through Ritual Practices in Tenganan Balinese Old Village, Bali

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10.2991/assehr.k.210407.215How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Affirmation, Identity, Ritual Practices, Culture, Bali

Abstract

This paper explores how ritual practices working on identity issues at the Balinese old villages. Ritual practices are an important part of a lifespan of community. These activities that structure the whole lives of the community are relevant on shared by and to a member of the community. Specifically, I ask whether these activities inform the extent to which individual experience of the practices as a meaningful factor for expressing their social identities. This paper believed that habitual practices are significant to reaffirm their identity in a globalized world, both in their group or what they performed in public. In the indigenous community more of those habitual practices are closely linked to important events. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews in Tenganan Pegringsingan Bali, Indonesia, the paper is dealing with how the local institution are, ritual and festive practices help reinforce a sense of identity. By considering the ritual such as meteruna nyoman (the young non-formal education), the paper present that these practices are strongly affected by the change of community because they depend so much on the participation of others. My research shows that processes such as the introduction of formal education, migrations, and the spread of Agama Hindu Bali have a particular effect on their ritual practices. My findings resonate with the sociological and anthropological literature on identity theories that the ritual practices as a meaningful experience in negotiating their identity. The paper concludes that ritual in practices is strongly serve as a socialization process and reaffirmation of identity

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - I Wayan Suyadnya
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/09
TI  - Reaffirmation of Identity Through Ritual Practices in Tenganan Balinese Old Village, Bali
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Technology and Educational Science (ICTES 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 66
EP  - 71
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210407.215
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210407.215
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