Interethnic Acculturation in Java: The Names of Chinese People in Lasem on the North Coast of Java
Journal Title: Asian Journal Social Sciences & Humanities - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Research on the subject of personal names is a very interesting source for discovering the development of the thoughts, ideas, notions, traditions, and life patterns of an individual within an underlying collective. The specific goal of this research is to describe the development of the linguistic form of personal names of people of mixed Chinese and Indonesian heritage in the city of Lasem, on the North Coast of Java, as well as to discover a model of interethnic acculturation based on the dynamics of life in the local community. The research uses a qualitative method with reference to the theories of Miles and Huberman (1992) and Sutopo (2008). The location of the research was the city of Lasem in Central Java, Indonesia. The type of research is a field study with a single research strategy which focuses on the personal names of the Chinese community. Central Java. The results of the research indicate that there is existence of acculturative name forms. The process of interethnic acculturation occurs both convergence and divergence. The process of convergence is due to the influence of various different cultures on people’s names, which has resulted in the formation of new names that are distinctively Indonesian in character. The process of divergence is due to the distribution of the use of Javanese (Indonesian) names within foreign (ethnic) names in a form that is either complete or partial.
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Sahid Widodo
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