ritual – Ingatan

5 Nov 201930 Jan 2020 Ramze Endut Essay

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Meskipun begitu, ritual bukanlah semata-mata mengenai suatu fahaman. Bukan sekadar ideologi. Ritual, lebih dari itu, kalau menurut Alexander lagi, adalah cerminan kuasa yang terdapat pada objek simboliknya. Di sini, objek simboliknya merangka corak berfikir dan berperasaan mengenai masa lalu yang dimiliki bersama (shared past).

As an all-encompassing sociocultural phenomenon, memory plays an important role in various areas of social practice. The calendar of commemorations –national, religious, ethnic– seems to be ever-increasing. Remembering and forgetting are major themes in contemporary literature and art. Memory enjoys practically top billing in daily and weekly newspapers. It has become a controversial topic in politics and the public sphere (in the context of phrases such as ‘national tradition’, ‘Holocaust memory’, or ‘truth and reconciliation’). And memory even occupies us in our free time, in the form of thriving heritage industry. [Astrid Erll, Memory in Culture]