Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations

Iskandar J, Iskandar BS 2016. Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations. Biodiversitas 17: 694-703. In the past, the village farmers of Java and other islands owned extensive the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on climate or pranata mangsa. I...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:4a40c1f80e9849f7a62b975f581694a32021-11-14T02:27:09ZEthnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations1412-033X2085-472210.13057/biodiv/d170244https://doaj.org/article/4a40c1f80e9849f7a62b975f581694a32016-08-01T00:00:00Zhttps://smujo.id/biodiv/article/view/347https://doaj.org/toc/1412-033Xhttps://doaj.org/toc/2085-4722Iskandar J, Iskandar BS 2016. Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations. Biodiversitas 17: 694-703. In the past, the village farmers of Java and other islands owned extensive the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on climate or pranata mangsa. It had culturally practiced as guidance to various agricultural activities, such as planting rice which is considered and fixed with dynamic climate conditions. Nowadays, however, the pranata mangsa has eroded and neglected by the majority irrigated rice (sawah) farmers. Unlike the sawah farmers, the Baduy people have culturally maintained the pranata mangsa (called by Baduy as pananggalan) for annual practicing the swidden farming (ngahuma). This paper discusses the way in which cultural practices of Baduy swidden farming based on traditional calendar. Method used in this study qualitative which is based on ethnoecology or ethnoastronomy approach. The result of study shows that the Baduy rice farming cycle is fixed annually with reference to an agricultural calendar. It has slightly affected by the various environmental perturbations, because the Baduy people have developed some strategies, such as by organizing the traditional calendar and applying the traditional agroforestry that productions can be used for both subsistence and commercial purposes.JOHAN ISKANDARBUDIAWATI S. ISKANDARMBI & UNS Soloarticlebaduy, ethnoastronomy, environmental perturbations, traditional calendar, swidden farmingBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENBiodiversitas, Vol 17, Iss 2 (2016)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
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topic baduy, ethnoastronomy, environmental perturbations, traditional calendar, swidden farming
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
spellingShingle baduy, ethnoastronomy, environmental perturbations, traditional calendar, swidden farming
Biology (General)
QH301-705.5
JOHAN ISKANDAR
BUDIAWATI S. ISKANDAR
Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
description Iskandar J, Iskandar BS 2016. Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations. Biodiversitas 17: 694-703. In the past, the village farmers of Java and other islands owned extensive the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) on climate or pranata mangsa. It had culturally practiced as guidance to various agricultural activities, such as planting rice which is considered and fixed with dynamic climate conditions. Nowadays, however, the pranata mangsa has eroded and neglected by the majority irrigated rice (sawah) farmers. Unlike the sawah farmers, the Baduy people have culturally maintained the pranata mangsa (called by Baduy as pananggalan) for annual practicing the swidden farming (ngahuma). This paper discusses the way in which cultural practices of Baduy swidden farming based on traditional calendar. Method used in this study qualitative which is based on ethnoecology or ethnoastronomy approach. The result of study shows that the Baduy rice farming cycle is fixed annually with reference to an agricultural calendar. It has slightly affected by the various environmental perturbations, because the Baduy people have developed some strategies, such as by organizing the traditional calendar and applying the traditional agroforestry that productions can be used for both subsistence and commercial purposes.
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BUDIAWATI S. ISKANDAR
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title Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
title_short Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
title_full Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
title_fullStr Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
title_full_unstemmed Ethnoastronomy-The Baduy agricultural calendar and prediction of environmental perturbations
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