Visual-Auditive Aspects of Lisung as a relic of Indigenous Community of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar

Abstract

Lisung, the traditional rice pounder is a cultural product of paddy fields of Sundanese community in Indonesia. This research aims to describe the factual condition of visual-auditive aspects of lisung in Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, Banten South, West Java-Indonesia, based on the theory of sensory phenomena. The research focused on how the logic of relationship will built between the visual and auditive aspects of lisung. The relation between the two is suspected to be an aspects that constructed the meaning of lisung culture as the relic of the indigenous community of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar. The research was conducted using the ethnographic method with tracking strategy. The indigenous people of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar were determined as research subjects because they are a group of Sundanese people who still carry on the life of farming in the fields based on the their ancestral heritage called tatali paranti karuhun  which are believed as mandatory to be carried out. Lisung is a paddy field cultural relic that accommodates the needs of their domestic rituals, festivals and domestic practices . The results of the research are (1) space as one of the elements of the visual aspects of lisung which results in the presence of new elements, the user element (women) (2) elaboration between the space element and the female element, forming the auditive aspect of lisung (3) visual aspects and auditive aspects of lisung is a unity

Keywords: Visual-auditive aspects, Traditional rice pounder, Sensory phenomena, Indigenous community of Kasepuhan Ciptagelar, Paddy fields culture

DOI: 10.7176/ADS/84-04

Publication date:August 31st 2020