Folk name and lore of birds from the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia: An ethno-ornithological survey
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Abstract. Mulyanto D, Iskandar J, Madani A, Gunawan R, Partasasmita R. 2020. Folk name and lore of birds from the Sundanese of West Java, Indonesia: An ethno-ornithological survey. Biodiversitas 21: 4384-4395. Since last time, research on birds in West Java had been undertaken by ornithologists. The ethnoornithology research, however, has been rarely employed. The study aims were to account for vernacular or folk names, folk classification, and folkloric birds based on case of the mountain people of Keratasari, West Java, Indonesia. The method in this study was qualitative with the ethnoornithological approach. The field data were collected by focus group discussion and deep interviews with informants of 12 groups of independent village people of four villages of Kertasari sub-district. The naming of collected data was by systematic elicitation of names from pictorial representations of birds and organized here to facilitate analysis of various aspects of folk taxonomy about the scientific one. Folklore about birds that were collected in natural contexts is also included to indicate the birds' role and their names in symbolic processes that exceed the limits of literal reference. The result of the study showed that it was recorded 222 bird species, representing 170 vernacular names, 93 of them were recorded by Koningsberger (1901-1909). The taxonomic and folkloric mode of knowledge in this paper presents that birds play important roles in villagers' lives of Sundanese people, particularly in the study area. Generally, birds have been an important role in socio-cultural aspects, including in folklore of Sundanese people who reside in rural mountain areas of West Java.
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Geertz C. 1963. Agricultural Involution: the processes of ecological exchange in Indonesia. Univ. California Press, Berkeley.
Hakim L, Abdoellah OS, Parikesit, Withaningsih S. 2020. Impact of agricultural crop type and hunting on bird communities of two villages in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21(1): 57-66.
Hoogerwerf 1948. Distribution of Birds in Java. Treubia 19: 116-127.
Hoogerwerf 1949a. The afauna of Tjibodas and surroundings: including nature monument Tjibodas-Gn.Gede. The Royal Botanic Garden of Indonesia, Boitenzorg, Java. [Dutch]
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Iskandar J. (in prep). Ethnoornithology: various local names of birds in Indonesia. Innosain, Yogyakarta.
Iskandar J, Iskandar, B.S. 2011. Sundanese agroecosystem. PT Kiblat Utama, Bandung [Indonesian].
Iskandar J, Iskanda, BS, Partasasmita R. 2016. The local knowledge of the rural people on species, role, and hunting of birds: case study in Karangwangi Village, West Java, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 17 (2): 435-446.
Iskandar J, Iskandar BS, Mulyanto D, Alfian RL, Partasasmita R. 2020. Traditional ecologocal knowledge of the bird traders on bird species, bird naming, and bird market chain: a case study in bird market Pasty Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 21 (6): 2586-2602.
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Lizarralde M. 2004. Indigenous knowledge and conservation of the rain forest: ethnobotany of the Bari of Venezuela. In Carlson TJS, Maffi L. (eds), ethnobotany and conservation of biocultural diversity. The New York Botanical Graden Press, New York.
MacKinnon JR. 1988. Field guide to the birds of Java and Bali. Gadjah Mada University Press, Yogyakarta.
Minahan JB. 2012. Ethnic Groups of South Asia and the Pacific: an Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
Müller-Gotama F. 2001. “Sundanese.” Languages of the World/Materials, 369. Lincom, Munich-Munchen.
Mulyanto D, Iskandar J, Gunawan R, Partasasmita R. 2019. Ethnoornithology: identification of bird names mentioned in Kakawin Ramayana, a 9th-century Javanese poem (Java, Indonesia). Biodiversitas 20(11): 3213-3222.
Pam GAB. 2017. Ethno-ornithology and Conservation: Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) of Birds Among The Mushere and Conservation of the Dulu Forest in Mushere, Plateau State, Nigeria. [Ph.D thesis] at University of Oxford, The United Kingdom.
Nastiti TS. 2006. ‘Old Sundanese community’, in Simanjuntak et.al. (eds.) Archaeology: Indonesian Perspective. LIPI, Jakarta.
Sanjaya AL, Purwantoro A, Wahyuningsih N. 2017. Katurangganing Kutut. Jurnal Expresi Seni19 (2): 174-192
Sinclair JR, Tuke L, Opiang M. 2010. ‘What the locals know: comparing traditional and scientific knowledge of megapodes in Melanesia’, in S Tideman and A Gosler (eds.) Ethno-ornithology: birds, indigenous peoples, culture, and society. Earthscan, London.
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