The Incantation of “Tonggo ni Harbue” for Rice Field Farming in Toba Batak Society: An Anthropolinguistic Study

Yessy Octavianna, Robert Sibarani, Hamzon Situmorang, Nam Syahot Hasibuan

2018

Abstract

The purposes of this article are to (1) finding the function of the incantation of “tonggo ni harbue” for rice field farming, (2) describing the types of local wisdoms in the incantation of “tonggo ni harbue” for rice field farming. This article was made on the basis of anthropolinguistic analysis with the model is ethnography, which used three components. The components are performance, indexicality and participation that can be considered effective in the assessment to text, cotext and context of local wisdom. The analytic parameters for this research are interconnection, evaluability and sustainability. Based on the research finding, it is found the function of incantation of tonggo ni harbue is asking the blessing (hatuaon) of dainang (mother of gods). The function of this blessing is asking for long life, having many offspring, asking for healthty, fullness of life, convenience and no have enemy. There are the cultural values that contained on the incantation of tonggo ni harbue which is used in the tradition of planting rice field can be formulated as 1) hard work, 2) diligence, 3) discipline, 4) togetherness, 5) mutual cooperation, 6) mutual help, 7) politeness, 8) caring for environment, 9) thanksgiving, and 10) healthy life.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Octavianna Y., Sibarani R., Situmorang H. and Syahot Hasibuan N. (2018). The Incantation of “Tonggo ni Harbue” for Rice Field Farming in Toba Batak Society: An Anthropolinguistic Study. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD, ISBN 978-989-758-543-2, pages 451-455. DOI: 10.5220/0009904500002480

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icnrsd18,
author={Yessy Octavianna and Robert Sibarani and Hamzon Situmorang and Nam Syahot Hasibuan},
title={The Incantation of “Tonggo ni Harbue” for Rice Field Farming in Toba Batak Society: An Anthropolinguistic Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,},
year={2018},
pages={451-455},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009904500002480},
isbn={978-989-758-543-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Natural Resources and Sustainable Development - Volume 1: ICNRSD,
TI - The Incantation of “Tonggo ni Harbue” for Rice Field Farming in Toba Batak Society: An Anthropolinguistic Study
SN - 978-989-758-543-2
AU - Octavianna Y.
AU - Sibarani R.
AU - Situmorang H.
AU - Syahot Hasibuan N.
PY - 2018
SP - 451
EP - 455
DO - 10.5220/0009904500002480