paper on the ethnic and cultural

CHAPTER IINTRODUCTION
1.1 BackgroundWith the Mentawai culture is broad, covering all parts of the north and south and the Mentawai islands. So that the islands are an archipelago which is a row of the row of the islands of Indonesia. More specifically the Mentawai Islands of Siberut island, Sipora, and has a population that seems to consist of Megalithik culture and rice farming technology that has affected almost all islands of Indonesia in Prehistori age population over the Indonesian archipelago.Mentawai ethnic culture can not we refer to as an example of the original Austronesian culture, because in the course of time they have developed their own culture and indeed there is a culture there are two elements in it that are vaguely still regarded as elements of the Austronesian culture original. Regarding the population Enggano basically have a similar culture with the culture of the Mentawai. They also initially not familiar staple food is rice and taro. While the system is both matrilineal kinship.
1.2 ObjectivesThe purpose of this paper are:A. To find out the identification of the Mentawai culture2. To determine the pattern of settlement Mentawai culture3. To find out the livelihoods of the Mentawai culture4. To find out about social systems Mentawai culture5. To find out about the religious culture of the Mentawai

 CHAPTER IIPROBLEM
As for some formulation problems to be described as follows:A. What is the meaning of the Mentawai people's lives?2. What is the shape or pattern contained in the township in the life of Mentawai people?3. How the shape of livelihood in the Mentawai culture?4. How the social system in the Mentawai people's lives?5. What is the shape of a religion in the life of Mentawai people?
 CHAPTER IIIRESOLUTION
3.1 Definition ofMentawai culture is an area that has many other islands such as Nisa, Simalur, Lots, Stone and Enggano located on the west island of Sumatra. Islands are an island group row that is part of the series of islands on the edge, the principal series of islands of Indonesia.Mentawai culture is an area that was recently understood about the cultivation of rice, so the islands are still using the technology, the Mentawai people before they know the rice plant, their staple food is taro. Starting from the Mentawai islands technological developments have come to know what it is suitable planting, so they are not to eat the taro plant.
3.2 Pattern of VillageIn ancient times people are calling Mentawai village by the name of fishnet, but now more prevalent as the village. The names of the villages were almost all taken from the name of the river which is where the location. As villages in Siberut Simatalu located downstream Simatalu, Silobari village in Sipora located downstream of North Pagai Sioban Matobedi village situated on the river Matobe and so on. Mentawai consists of 5 areas called perumaan, which centered on a large stage house (uma). In a small housing inhabited by families of people who are officially married with a house called lalep. There are also houses occupied by families of people who are not married officially known as the home side. Siberut is a public meeting hall for joint ceremonies and holy feast to which all members are bound by a customary kinship. For men on a holy day, or for guests who were there on the way and asked where to spend the night in the village.Still standing in some village and administrative center of the village, or as an ordinary general meeting hall, a village hall and the administrative center of the village, or a school. Instead now the home side now had lost its function so it is now used as a place to stay for the kids or guests.
3.3 LivelihoodsLivelihoods of the Mentawai people are gardening. Just as the man opened the parcel of land in the forest by cutting shrubs and cutting down small trees and large half. Then the farming activities in the garden is usually dominated by women, then the plants will be planted taro and sweet potato, other crops such as rice, bananas, papaya, sugar cane, vegetables, spices and herbs. They plant with a stick tegal and hoe or soil without first tilling, while irrigation water is only dependent on rain. A livelihood is exclusively done by men are hunting, usually in a cooperative relationship between two or three items, but sometimes mutual cooperation by members of the uma. Animals that are hunted deer or a pig, but the way people often shoot or capture a wide range of other animals such as monkeys, birds, and others. Pigs or deer were herded by the dogs somewhere, where people are ready just to shoot with arrows .
3.4 System communitySocial unity is the ultimate in everyday life in the Mentawai people are family units similar batih.dalam there was a man and woman, who lived together as husband and wife in a modest little house. The male is usually the origin of a particular group of relatives who have uma pusatanya one in the village. If a man has reached a rather advanced age is generally around 40 years old, and he has planted quite a lot of breadfruit trees, palm, and kelapa.kalau he had collected enough money from the sale of coconut, banana and rattan, and if children have become young pamudi can help in terms of feeding, then he will inaugurate the ceremony of marriage with an ample and lively, which took place in the uma is usually made up of branches and twigs of several major clans or mauntogal. Clan-clan of each having members that are widely distributed in various villages are far apart and that is sometimes considered his ancestor's place of origin in a village the other islands. Because people use the name of an uma klennya composed of members who have various names, such as sababalat, sabola, samopo, sagilik, tubikat and so on.At the present time the smallest administrative unit in rural communities in the Mentawai island neighbor, which is roughly equal to what was once a uma unity with the surrounding houses under a rimata. Now there are only a head of RT. A number of RT incorporated into a village under a headman. While a number of villages is one district, fences north and south, for example, a single district. Fence north and south, for example, is one of the areas under chiefs, who rank as the regent.
3.5 ReligionMentawai people there who are Christians, Catholics, and there is also a Muslim. The most widely embraced religion is Christianity, and Catholicism and the least amount of adherents is the religion of Islam. Although in most of the Mentawai islands, there is absolutely no more people have formally adopted the native religion, but in villages where social unity uma was still active as in Siberut, some of the concepts and elements from religious ceremonies old still live on in the death and funeral ceremonies. One example is the custom to bury the corpse in a coffin shaped boat. In the old conception of the spirit of the deceased went to the spirit world, which would normally be no other on an island across the sea. Another example is the custom to take to the grave with jenzah avoid roads that are usually passed manusia.Adat old conception that is based on the spirit of the dead are always trying to get back to the place she lived through the streets that have been used to lived when he was alive.

 CHAPTER IVCLOSING
4.1 ConclusionMentawai culture is an area that has many islands such as Nisa, Simalur etc.. The islands are located on the western island of Sumatra, the island is the series of islands just off the main sequence of the Indonesian archipelago.Mentawai ethnic culture can not we refer to as an example of the original Austronesian culture, because in the course of time meraka meraka has developed its own culture and indeed there are one or two cultural elements that are inside the dimly still be considered as elements of Austronesian culture .
4.2 AdviceIn the paper we have made is expected readers or friends can understand the contents of this paper there is a lack diatas.Bils in the manufacture of this paper, all the suggestions and constructive criticism, we received very well.
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