TY  - JOUR
T1  - Indigenous Knowledge in Lamalera Village and Preservation Tools in the Society
AU - Hasanah, Putrisetyati AU - Adriani Susetyo-Salim, Tamara 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 2
SP  - 279
EP  - 283
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.279.283
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.279.283
KW  - Indigenous knowledge
KW  -whale hunter
KW  -preservation
KW  -tradition
KW  -Lamalera
AB  - Lamalera society has a tradition of whale hunting which has been going on from hundreds years ago.
This tradition has been implemented to be living fulfillment of the society to overcome the dry season and fulfill
the villager’s food. Local knowledge preservation was required to preserve the tradition so it can be used by
generation to generation and can be accessed by the public. Knowledge preservation performed by story telling
from generation to generation until the controling of access level to maintain the tradition. Access level in the
society is needed to observe the level of influential people to deliver this tradition. Observing the nature makes
Lamalera society which basically live in barren area has another alternative to maintain their life using whale
hunting. It also is used to create innovation on fulfilling the needs of fuel as life support from the whale
processing. The application of local knowledge preservation, the clan chief’s or traditional leader’s role on
whale flesh distribution, the determination of ritual beginning, until then the action of whale hunting and the
basic aim of the hunting were performed and reproduced by the knowledge of traditional leader to the next
generation of Lamafa. Knowledge delivery of Lamafa from generation to generation constitutes control tool
from the Lamalera society to preserve their tradition.
ER  -