THE CULTURAL VALUES OF BAHUMA IN BANJARNESE: TRADITION ANTHROPOLINGUISTIC STUDY

Abstract

Bahuma deals with the activity of growing rice in the field. This paper presented concept of local knowledge of Bahuma (farming) in the core of tradition anthropolinguistic study. This study aimed to (1) classify various terms in Bahuma lexicon in Banjar society; (2) describe the cultural values of Bahuma lexicon. A descriptive qualitative method was used in this study. The location of the study was in Sungai Alat Village, Astambul District, Banjar Regency. The data were collected through audio-video recording, participant observation, and depth-interview. The result showed that based on the type of the terms in the Bahuma lexicon, it can be classified that there are twelve terms used in how to farm Bahuma and ten tools terms used in Bahuma. The cultural value in Bahuma lexicon has local wisdom (1) creative, never gives up, and cooperation.