Universitas Indonesia Conferences, 7th International Symposium of Journal Antropologi Indonesia

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Protected Assumption: Care for Culture through the Ecological Vocational Communities of the Mountain Community in Allakuang Village
Zulkifli Zul, Pawennari Hijjang

Building: Soegondo Building
Room: 524
Date: 2019-07-24 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Last modified: 2019-06-24

Abstract


Economic needs and technological sophistication today have a significant influence on the condition of the ecology of society so that they to attract the attention of anthropologists to make the object of study. Anthropology in studying people's culture elaborates on strategic issues in interpreting changes in the culture of society. Through the critical Ethnographic approach, this article aims to explore and uncover the meanings behind the assumptions of the resistance of the craftsmen community in Allakuang Village. The results showed that ecological conditions tended to be dominated and neglected by the urgency of economic needs in the midst of technological sophistication to be considered negligent on patterns of environmental preservation along with the effects that endanger them in the future. Complaints by environmentalists were responded with a solid resistance effort from among artisans, diggers to the owners of excavated land through variations in resistance along with statements that integrated the urgency of their existence up to now as if they indicated that those who criticized tried to enter and understand the dynamics, situations and feelings that experienced. Thus this study shows that the ecological awareness of the community of mountain stone craftsmen requires revitalization efforts to be aligned with the efforts of economically conscious economies in caring for their identity as a symbol of the community that has been known up to now so that environmental, cultural and economic life are in harmony with social umbrella and environmental ethics applicable.

Keywords: Stone Craftsmen, Economic Efforts, Environmental Urgency, Assumption of Resistance, Community Identity