Ruang Budaya Pada Proses Daur Hidup (Pernikahan) dan Tradisi Wiwit di Desa Sumber Polaman, Lawang Jawa Timur

Abstract

Lawang City has many interesting places of tourism, one of them was Sumber Polaman Village. The village has several cultural activities such as barikan on every Friday Legi, wedding ceremony, and wiwit or rice harvest ceremony. Those traditional ritual ceremonies in this village have been routinely held by the local people to honor the ancestral spirits and as an appeal to God for the prosperity of the villagers. Along with that, those cultural rituals form a specific cultural space. This was a qualitative descriptive research with a phenomenology approach. With non numerical data, this study aims to describe the spatial pattern of cultural ritual activities in the Polaman village and analyze the cultural space formed by cultural rituals by looking at the behavioral changes patterns among the people who perform such cultural rituals.Cultural spaces in Polaman Lawang has become potential areas that must be well protected, so it can become an interesting local cultural attractions to be visited by tourists

Keywords

• cultural space
• ritual ceremony
• Sumber Polaman Village