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Manggarai culture is very popular in todays world. We take pride as most tourists
now come to Indonesia to enjoy the culture that is specific to Manggarai culture. We know
that culture is attached to each individual, hadi about Manggarai culture also must be attached
to every person in Manggarai. One of the popular Manggarai culture is the Caci Dance of
destruction. Manggarai culture is now more popular, so we need as people Manggarai must
still keep the popular culture.
a .Language System
Language is a means for humans to meet their social needs to interact or connect with each
other. In anthropology, the study of language is called the term linguistic anthropology .
according to Keesing, human ability to build cultural traditions, create an understanding of
the symbolically expressed social pophenomenon, and past it on to future generations heavily
dependent on language. Thus, language occupies an important portion in the analysis of
human culture.
b . System Knowledge
The system of knowledge in the universal culture is related to the system of living equipment
and techonology because the knowledge system is abstract and tangible in human ideas. The
knowledge of the various elements used in its life. Rural comunities that live from farming
will have a traditional agricultural calendar system called a system of pranatamanggsa that
has long been used by the ancestors to run its agricultural activities.
The cultural elements of the kinship system and social organization are anthropological
attempts to understand how humans form socities through various social groups. According
to Koentjaraningrat each community of his life is governed by costums and rules concerning
various entities in the enviroment in which he lives and mingle with each other day by day.
The closest and basic social unity is its relative, the close nuclear family and other relatives.
Furthermore, humans will be classified into geographical locality levels to form a social
organization in their lives. Kinship is related to the nation of marriage in a society because
marriage is the core or foundation of the formation of a community or socuial organization.
Humans always try to keep their life so they will always make the equipment or objects, the
anthropologists initial concern in understanding human culture is based on the technological
elements that a society uses in the form of objects used as living tools with simple forms and
technologies. Thus, the discussion of the elements of culture included in the equipment of life
and technology is the suject of physical culture.
f . Religious system
Koentjaraningrat states that the origin of the problem of religious function in society is the
question of why people believe in the existence of a supernatural or supernatural power
which is considered higher than humans and why man is doing various ways to communicate
an seek relationships withsupernatural powers.
g . Art
The anthropologists interest in art begins with ethnographic research on the arts activities of a
traditional society. The description collected in the study contains objects or artefact
containing elemnts of art, such as sculptures, carvings, and ornaments. The writing of early
ethnography about the elements of art in human culture is more directed to the techniques and
process of making the art objects. In addition, the early ethnographic descriptions also
examine the development of music art, dance, and drama art in a society.
Education
About in Manggarai is very low compared to other regions in Indonesia. We need to realize
that the education rangkings in Manggarai very bad. From now we need to think how we as
people Manggarai to improve the quality of education in Manggarai and must be able to
compete thruoghout Indonesia. Talk about education we must hear familiar. We as
Manggarai people also need to think why education in Manggarai is low?.
Education often takes places under the guidance of others, but also allows self-taught.
Education is generally divided into stages such as preshool, primary school, high school and
then college, university or internship.
Culture and education is very important in our life human everyday. Culture and education
must to same work to improve quality life human. We know that many culture in manggarai
such as education to we learning everyday.