Autorité et transmission à travers la relation aîné-cadet. L’école de penca Cimande Pusaka Medal à Banten (Indonésie)

Abstract

The village of Rancalame is an important place for the ritual initiation penca in Banten. Penca comprises a combination of fighting techniques and protection practices and concerns the whole village’s community. The initiation is carried out by the sons of the penca school’s founder : the oldest warrantees the authority at the local level ; the youngest is in charge of the relationships with the political institutions and the penca school’s branches. This regulation of relationships between the interior and the exterior of the penca practice community, and widely of the village, has in this way a dynamical two-dimensional characteristic. On one hand, the initiation operates a distinction of rank and status between the inhabitants of the village. On the other hand, its purpose is rather to renew the society than to maintain the prestige and the reproduction of rival social groups.

Keywords

• authority
• transmission
• oldest-youngest
• penca
• Banten