Agriculture Products in Mengket Rumah Mbaru Tradition as Karonese’s Symbols of Local Wisdom and Sustainable Agriculture: A Linguistic Anthropology Study

Alemina Br Perangin-angin, Robert Sibarani, Ikhwanuddin Nasution, Asmyta Surbakti

2018

Abstract

The use of materials such as the young coconut leaf, ripe banana, rice, brown sugar, and also traditional cloth etc.in Mengket rumah mbaru tradition or entering a new house ceremony. The using of those things as reflection that Karonese is an agricultural society. Agriculture is the biggest source of income for Karo people. It is already be the part of their life and cultural activities. It is because the lush soil and also a good climate of Karo land can support their life from the agriculture sector. Most of those materials presented during the ceremony is interested to be observed because it has a cultural value and local wisdom as the heritage from their ancestor and also has the economics value. The objectives of this paper is to find out the meaning of the agriculture product used in the Mengket Rumah Mbaru tradition or entering a new house tradition among the Karonese as one of the local culture and also a part of the sustainable agriculture . This research uses the qualitative research design. The research perform the researcer by involved directly to the event. The research is qualitative research. The researcher directly involved in ceremony to collect some data during the ceremony. Based on research which conducted it is concluded that each of the materials used in the ceremony is a symbol of hope and prayers so that people entering the new home will be given happiness prosperity and a better life in the future. This understanding as part of the local wisdom of Karonese that passed down since ages ago, as well as to fulfil their needs of food. This implementation of Mengket Rumah Mbaru tradition is a kind of tradition preservation and all the products used in the ceremony as one of agricultural sustainability attempt.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Br Perangin-angin A., Sibarani R., Nasution I. and Surbakti A. (2018). Agriculture Products in Mengket Rumah Mbaru Tradition as Karonese’s Symbols of Local Wisdom and Sustainable Agriculture: A Linguistic Anthropology Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD, ISBN 978-989-758-543-2, pages 27-31. DOI: 10.5220/0009897000002480

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnrsd18,
author={Alemina Br Perangin-angin and Robert Sibarani and Ikhwanuddin Nasution and Asmyta Surbakti},
title={Agriculture Products in Mengket Rumah Mbaru Tradition as Karonese’s Symbols of Local Wisdom and Sustainable Agriculture: A Linguistic Anthropology Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,},
year={2018},
pages={27-31},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009897000002480},
isbn={978-989-758-543-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,
TI - Agriculture Products in Mengket Rumah Mbaru Tradition as Karonese’s Symbols of Local Wisdom and Sustainable Agriculture: A Linguistic Anthropology Study
SN - 978-989-758-543-2
AU - Br Perangin-angin A.
AU - Sibarani R.
AU - Nasution I.
AU - Surbakti A.
PY - 2018
SP - 27
EP - 31
DO - 10.5220/0009897000002480