Timing and characteristics Slametan

1 timing , characteristics

1.1 life cycle events
1.2 islamic feasts
1.3 community feasts
1.4 personal feasts

timing , characteristics

tumpeng commonly main menu in slametan.


life cycle events

around birth, there 4 major slametans , number of minor ones. 4 major ones are:

tingkeban, @ 7 months of pregnancy (held first child of either mother or father)
babaran or brokokan, @ birth itself
pasaran, 5 days after birth, including naming of child
pitonan, 7 months after birth (a month being 35-day cycle of javanese calendar)

the circumcision slametan (islamam or sunatan, held boys between ages of ten , fourteen) , wedding slametan (kepanggihan) similar in ceremony , foods offered, , can seen coming-of-age ceremonies boys , girls, respectively.

funerals (layatan) take place possible after death, , inevitably involve religious specialist (modin) of village. slametans held day of death, , repeated in increasing size (both in number of guests , length of chant) three, seven, forty, , 100 days after death, first , second anniversaries, , 1000 days after death. final 1 elaborate, , thought mark point when body has decayed dust.

islamic feasts

the important of calendrical slametans prophet s birthday (muludan, on 12 rabi al-awwal) , near end of ramadan (maleman). other notable holidays infrequently have slametans, , satu suro, new year s day (1 muharram) celebrated self-consciously anti-muslim. because these dates shared everybody, common attend slametans many of 1 s neighbors in succession. reason, tend relatively small, , particularly based on principle of inviting neighbors.

community feasts

the bersih désa held in dhu al-qi dah (sela), eleventh month, on different days according village tradition. slametan given @ place of burial of dhanyang désa, guardian spirit of village. in santri villages, may take place @ mosque , consist entirely of muslim prayers. type of slametan, families in village expected contribute food, adult head of each family obliged attend.

personal feasts

geertz s final category of slametans, intermittently occurring , dependent on specific situation, less frequent , tend smaller affairs. reasons holding these slametans include changing residences, changing names, going on journey, bad dreams (it can prevent fearful event), prevention or encouragement of rain, anniversaries of clubs , organizations, sorcery, healing, , others.