KAPATA
AS AN ORAL HISTORY NARRATOR OF MOLLUCCA’SCOMMUNITY (AN HERMENEUTIC ANALYSIS UNTO
KAPATA SIWALIMA
FROM SOAHUKU, CENTRAL MOLLUCCA)
Falantino Eryk LatupapuaFricean Tutuarima
Abstract
: In a community living as a custom community from mostregion of Mollucca, oral literary has a vital function. An oral literary hasever being the main component in every customary rite in the customvillages of Mollucca, such as;
panas pela, panas gandong, pamoi,
andetc. Most of the oral literary type has integrated in the customary riteof the Mollucca’s; folksongs, traditional wisdoms, rhymes, andfolkspeechs. A kind of oral literary that enthused to be studied is
kapata
or Mollucca’s folksong. This is an introductory study torecognize
kapata
as of product of Mollucca’s oral tradition which haveknown long time in the Mollucca’s customary and cultural system. Thissubject is an important matter to be conversed cause in this time, oralliterary revitalize discourse as a cultural heritage into stabilizedcommunity development is being studied everywhere. Thereby,conversed
kapata
could
means re-elaborating the essence of oralliterary as a cultural and civilization developer of Mollucca’s. Theexpected aim of this study is to introducing
kapata
as an oral historynarrator of Molluca’s and as means of norm and value preserver. It canbe used to rearrange relation and brotherhood among The Mollucca’shereafter the 1999 human conflict. Conversed
kapata
in this study isthe famous
Kapata Siwalima
which comes from Soahuku Village(
Lilipory Kalapessy
) in Central Mollucca.
Kapata Siwalima
is a wellknown as a folksong of the Soahuku’s community. The content andstructure description of
Kapata Siwalima
is using content analysismethod with the structural hermeneutic approach.
Keywords :
oral literary
,
kapata
, structural hermeneutic.
Falantino Eryk Latupapua and Fricean Tutuarima are Lecturer of FKIP Department, Pattimura University, Ambon