Lukman, Christine Claudia (2019) Lasem Batik as Visual Documentation of Tionghoa Peranakan Society's Cultural Memory. In: 6th International Conference on Chinese Indonesian Studies, 22-23 November 2019, Semarang.
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Abstract
Cultural memory of a society is related to behavior, artifacts, and values that are preserved through social practice and initiation. In the past Tionghoa Peranakan society in Lasem preserved cultural memory by documenting it visually on batik. They conveyed the message of life value through motifs, composition, and colors. It's a pity nowadays most of Tionghoa Peranakan younger generation in Lasem, even those who work as batik entrepreneurs, cannot understand the message. This is due to cultural disruption during Order Baru (New Order) period that alienated them from their ancestral cultural memory, and the collapse of Lasem batik industry for nearly 30 years (from the 1970's until 2000's). Currently some batik entrepreneurs in Lasem are trying to maintain batik as a medium to document cultural memory according to their own methods that are: make the same motif for 50 years, reproduce the classic Lasem batik, and write in Chinese characters about life value on batik. This study aims to reveal the cultural memory on batik from these entrepreneurs through etic methods (literature studies and semiotic analysis from researcher) and emic (in-depth interviews with batik entrepreneurs and craftspeople). The analysis results are used to decode cultural memories, which are life values of Lasem Tionghoa Peranakan society.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cultural memory, Lasem batik, life value |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NX Arts in general |
| Depositing User: | Perpustakaan Maranatha |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Oct 2020 02:00 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2020 02:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.maranatha.edu/id/eprint/6885 |
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