Pemertahanan Kebudayaan Tionghoa Bangka Melalui Ritual Lok Thung Dalam Cerpen Karya Sunlie Thomas Alexander

Diyah Dariyatul Nafsichah, Djoko Saryono, Sunoto Sunoto

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Abstract:  Sunlie Thomas Alexander is one of the writers of Chinese descent who raised the world of Chinese Bangka. One of his interesting short story is "Jelaga hio". In the short story, Alexander illustrates clearly how people of Chinese descent in Bangka maintain culture through a lok thung rite. With literary anthropology, the short story can be seen how the preservation of Bangka Chinese community culture through lok thung rituals. Referring to this approach, the research data is in the form of idiographic data in the form of text excerpts. The Lok Thung ritual is the identity of the Chinese community in Bangka originating from ancestral lands. With the lokthung ritual still held, the preservation of Bangka Chinese culture is maintained. In addition, through the lokthung ritual, cultural inheritance also occurs with the successors of the descendants of lok thung.

Abstrak: Sunlie Thomas Alexander merupakan salah satu seorang penulis keturunan Tionghoa yang mengangkat dunia Tionghoa Bangka. Salah satu cerpennya yang menarik adalah “Jelaga Hio”. Dalam cerpen tersebut, Alexander menggambarkan dengan jelas bagaimana orang-orang keturunan Tionghoa di Bangka mempertahankan kebudayaan melalui sebuah ritus lok thung. Dengan antropologi sastra, dalam cerpen tersebut dapat diketahui bagaimana pemertahanan kebudayaan komunitas Tionghoa Bangka melalui ritual lok thung. Merujuk pada pendekatan tersebut, maka data penelitian ini berupa data idiografis yang berupa kutipan teks. Ritual lok thung merupakan identitas komunitas Tionghoa di Bangka yang berasal dari tanah leluhur. Dengan masih diadakannya ritual lokthung, maka pemertahanan kebudayaan Tionghoa Bangka tetap terjaga. Selain itu, melalui ritual lokthung, pewarisan kebudayaan juga terjadi dengan adanya penerus-penerus keturunan lok thung.

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cultural preservation; Chinese Bangka; lok thung; pemertahanan kebudayaan; Tionghoa Bangka; lok thung

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