THE CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL TOOLS IN PAYO RICE FIELDS OF MELAYU JAMBI ETHNIC COMMUNITIES

Keywords: Cultural Artifacts, Jambi Malays, The Traditional Farm Tools

Abstract

Jambi Malay ethnic communities in the province of Jambi have livelihoods as farmers. In farming, they use the ways and tools of traditional. Farm tools of the Jambi Malay ethnic communities are the artifacts that need to be analyzed, scrutinized, and recorded as the corpus of the thinking and creativity of the community ancestor Jambi Malay. The aim of the research is classifying the traditional tools in farming system payo on Jambi Malay ethnic communities. The approach used in this study is the ethnographic and the methods used to obtain data is a research library, observation, and interviews. The research showed that  Jambi Malay ethnic community uses traditional farming tools namely Parang Panjang, Kayu Pengait, Pangkur, Keruntung, Ambung, Tajak, Sabit, Kisaran, Nyiru, dan Tikar Rumbai. The Jambi Malay ethnic communities traditional tools classified into two major class i.e cutter (dynamic) and container (static) tools. Classification obtained is expected to motivate the holding of study, research, and comprehensive archiving of traditional agricultural tools of Jambi Malay ethnic communities as part of Indonesian culture artifacts.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Albar, D. (2011). Boneka ’Barbie’ Berkerudung Sebagai Bentuk Desain dan Kebudayaan. Visualita, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.33375/vslt.v3i2.1121.

Bachtiar, H.W. (1980). Pengamatan Sebagai Suatu Metode Penelitian. Dalam Koentjaraningrat. (Ed). Metode-Metode Penelitian Masyarakat (h. 137-158). Jakarta: PT Gramedia.

Badan Pusat Statistik. (2009). Retrieved from https://www.bps.go.id/ 2015/09/10/895/luas-lahan-sawah-menurut-provinsi-ha-2003-2015.html.

Eko, D. (2015). Ilmu Sosial dan Budaya Dasar (1st ed., p. 11). Bogor: Ghalia Indonesia.

Eva, Z., Nurbaiti, H., & Fetriatman. (1993). Kearifan Tradisional Masyarakat Pedesaan Dalam Pemeliharaan Lingkungan Hidup di Daerah Propinsi Jambi, Jambi: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.

Ibrahim, B., Aminur, R., Kms. B. Rahman., (1990). Peralatan Produksi Tradisional dan Perkembangannya di Daerah Jambi, Jambi: Departemen dan Kebudayaan.

Izarwisma. M., Hilderia, S. Ed.). (1990). Isi dan Kelengkapan Rumah Tangga Tradisional Menurut Tujuan, Fungsi dan Kegunaan di Daerah Jambi, Jambi: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.

Koentjaraningrat. (1996). Pengantar Ilmu Antropologi, Jakarta: Rineka.

Published
2019-02-27
How to Cite
[1]
N. Fadilah and R. Maulina, “THE CLASSIFICATION OF TRADITIONAL TOOLS IN PAYO RICE FIELDS OF MELAYU JAMBI ETHNIC COMMUNITIES”, Visualita, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 13-21, Feb. 2019.
Section
Articles