Cultural Manifestations in Oral Folklore: The Legend of Babad Alas Prigi (A Literary Anthropology Study)

Meinita Istantiani, Murliana Murliana

Abstract

This study aims to identify the cultural elements in the Babad Alas Prigi legend and the Trenggalek Regency in East Java. The researcher uses qualitative research methods with an ethnographic framework, and the data were analyzed using a descriptive interpretative approach. The data analysis is based on the ideas of Koentjaraningrat, where culture is subdivided into three primary and interrelated components: ideas, activities, and artifacts. Out of the research conducted, the ideas that the legend presents such as harmony among brothers, the persistence to achieve a goal, and religiousness, reflects the community’s beliefs, which are largely vocalized in the Larung Sembonyo ritual that is a part of the community’s socio-religious activities as an act of thanksgiving and a spiritual communion with the environment. On the other hand, the legend is also a cultural artifact, the Goa Lawa in Watulimo. The Babad Alas Prigi tale is a functional cultural system that integrates meaning of the narrative, ritual, and the physical heritage, which is a vital part of the cultural identity preservation and the local wisdom in the modern Javanese society.

Keywords

oral tradition; anthropology; folklore; trenggalek

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/javanologi.v9i2.114625

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