Project: Proposal, Brief & Gant-Chart

Task:
To design and develop an Interactive Information Design Application

Title:
Arts and Crafts In Minangkabau / Minang Culture

Objective:
• To give information and learn about arts and crafts of minang culture at audience using interactive information.

Target audience:

Teenagers ( 13-18 years old )

Arts and Crafts In Minangkabau / Minang Culture

Introduction

Minangkabau or Minang people are ethnic groups who are speaking and uphold traditional of Minangkabau. Regional cultural adherents include West Sumatra, hald of Riau land, north of Bengkulu, west part of Jambi, North Sumatra to the south, southwest of Aceh and Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia.

Their culture is the nature of motherhood (matrilineal), with the property and the land handed down from mother to daughter, while religious and political affairs is a matter for man (although some women also pay an important role in this field). Now about half of the Minangkabau people living in the region, the majority of large towns and cities in Indonesia and Malaysia. The Malays in Malaysia, many of which originated from the Minangkabau, they mainly live in Negeri Sembilan and johor.

Myths in Legend Of Minangkabau

The word Minangkabau is a combination of two words, namely, a Minang means “victory” and kabau for “buffalo”. According to legend, the name is derived from the events of the dispute between the Minangkabau kingdom to a prince of the power of Java, which require the recognition of the Malays. To prevent them from fighting, the people of Minangkabau buffalo fights suggests competition between the two parties. The prince agreed and features a large and ferocious buffalo. Local people, will only features a buffalo calf is hungry, but the horns were sharpened. During the contest, the children are starving buffalo inadvertently butt buffalo horns in the stomach and wanted to find the nipple to dispel hunger. The violent death of the buffalo and the locals managed to resolve the land struggles In a safe manner.

Minangkabau traditional house roof a house called Gadang, ( Big House ) has a unique shape because it resembles a horn of buffalo. It also have certain principles in the construction of Minangkabau traditional house.

Culture

Minangkabau society is a matrilineal society of the largest in the world, where inheritance diwaris nasab pass through the mother. Some experts argue that free thought is what causes the customary noisy Minangkabau men to wander in serata archipelago to seek knowledge or looking for luxury with the trade. A child as young as 7 years usually men will leave their homes to stay in the mosque where they were taught the science of religion and traditional Minangkabau. If teenagers also, they encouraged to leave their villages to study at school or draw from the experience rather than outside the village in the hope that they will return as an adult who is more mature and responsible to the family and village (my hometown).

This tradition is able to establish some regional of Minangkabau society in airports and other places in Indonesia. But their ties with “Ranah Minang” (Minang Land) are retained and strengthened again. One example of the region inhabited by the Minangkabau people and still practice the customs and culture of Minangkabau is Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia.

Other than those identified as traders, also triumphed Minang society bears some poets, writers, statesmen, cultural, experts thought, and the scholars. This may occur because penimbaan aggravating their cultural knowledge. As a strong adherent of the Islamic religion, they tend to the idea to combine the characteristics of Islam in the modern society. In addition, the role played by the scholars together with spirits proud Minang people with their identity make Minangkabau Land, namely, West Sumatra, as a major power in the independence movement in Indonesia.

Minang society, devided to several tribes, namely, Interest Piliang, Bodi Caniago, Tanjuang, Koto, Sikumbang, Malay and tuft. Sometimes also, the family clan lived in a big house called House Tower. Use of Indonesian berleluasa among the Minang people, but they are still allowed to speak in their mother language, namely, Minangkabau language. Minangkabau language has words that are similar to the Malay language but different designation and also in terms of grammar to make it unique.

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