Tentang Minahasa?

Bulan berselang, salah seorang "Pendeta-Sastrawan", Froly Lelengboto
di New Zealand, mengirimkan artikel yang cukup menarik. Atau, bagi saya pribadi, malah teramat menarik. Yaitu, sebuah tulisan bernuansa antropology mengenai MINAHASA. Tulisan tersebut sungguh menarik, ditulis oleh DR. Michael Jacobsen, dan dipublikasikan dalam bahasa Inggeris.

Untuk menjaga agar dokumen tersebut boleh tersosialisasi di kalangan komunitas Minahasa, maka abstract dan link mengakses file tersebut di muat disini. Semoga bermanfaat bagi yang berminat bagi study mengenai Minahasa.

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On the Question of Contemporary
Identity in Minahasa, North Sulawesi
Province, Indonesia

By: Michael JACOBSEN


Abstract
The article analyzes the developments behind the current shift in
Indonesian nation building by discussing how the present societal
changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have enabled the Minahasa, a
Christian ethnic group in North Sulawesi Province, to initiate a reevaluation
of their current identity in anticipation of more room for
political maneuvers during the implementation of the national
programme of economic decentralisation and regional autonomy,
initiated on 1 January 2001. After positioning the Minahasa on the
political map of contemporary North Sulawesi Province, the article
focuses on past and present perceptions of Minahasa identity. This is then
discussed in relation to new initiatives concerning a revival of precolonial
culture in order to boost contemporary Minahasa identity. The
objective is to be able to distinguish between three main aspects within
contemporary Minahasa identity formation: the creation of Minahasa as
an imagined community, the background for the current elusive
Minahasa identity, and finally, the ongoing quest for an invigorated
identity that is capable of dealing with the current political changes in
North Sulawesi and Indonesia in general.

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