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PROPOSAL
LETTERS FACULTY
MUSLIM UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA
MAKASSAR
2015
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
Indonesia is an archipelagic state that sits between Asia and
Australia continent. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world
that consists of 17.480 islands. There are seven big islands in
Indonesia that are Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Sulawesi, Nusa Tenggara,
Maluku and Papua. Sumatra has Aceh, Medan, Padang, Palembang,
Jambi, Lampung, Bengkulu and Riau. Borneo has Pontianak,
Palangka Raya, Banjarmasin, and Samarinda. Java has Jakarta as
capital
of
Indonesia,
Bandung,
Semarang,
Yogyakarta,
and
nature,
performing
situation
and
variation
are
E. Scope of Study
In this research, the author focuses on the history of Sumpah Bibir
Pecah Arung Palakka in Buton and the meaning of the curse from
sultan of Buton.
CHAPTER II
REVIEW AND RELATED LITERATURE
2.1 Culture
Culture has many definitions, and it affects everything people do in
their society because of their ideas, values, attitudes, and normative
or expected patterns of behaviour. Culture is not genetically inherited,
and cannot exist on its own, but is always shared by members of a
society (Hall 1976:16).
Hofstede
(1980:21-23)
defines
culture
as
the
collective
From the definitions above, it can be said that culture is the way of
life as an evidence of intellectual development in human society that
uses particular language to express.
2.2 Folklore
patience,
persistence,
virtue
and
morality.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folklore_of_Indonesia)
According to Dorson (1972:2), folklore can be divided into four
categories. These are termed the oral literature, the material culture,
the social folk custom and the performing folk arts. Each of these is,
in turn, divided into different subdivisions.
The first category, the oral literature, is composed of folk narrative,
folk song or folk poetry, with their subclasses. Folk narrative consists,
for instance, of myths, legends, folk tales, proverbs, and riddles and
so on, most of which are genres that are, as according to Dorson
(1972:2), passed down from generation to generation orally and
without known authorship. Folk poetry consists of different kinds of
poems including narrative folk poetry, folk epics and so forth. The
second
material
culture,
responds to
2.3 Legend
Legends are used as a source of folklore, providing historical
information regarding the culture and views of a specific legend's
native civilization. A legend (Latin, legenda, "things to be read") is a
narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and
listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain
qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. Legend, for its active and
passive participants includes no happenings that are outside the
realm of "possibility" but which may include miracles. Legends may
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CHAPTER III
RESEARCH METHOD
Interview
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Observation
The writer will collect the data from the object that relate
with the research. The writer provide some article about the
story to complete the data.
3.3.3
Documentation
To collect the data is through take some pictures, record
document at object research. The writer will collect the
transcription which is relate to the research.
D. Data Analysis
To analyze the data, there are steps: firstly the researcher will
observe the object research. Secondly, interview the resource person
and the local people while do documentation. Thirdly, the researcher
analysis the data. Take addition from book and some articles that
consider with the research. Finally, the researcher gives the conclusion
for the result of the finding.
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REFERENCES
Dundes, Alan. 1965. The Study of Folklore. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall
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