Melampaui Materialisme Kultural:
Relasi Anjing dan Manusia dalam Perspektif Orang Huaulu

Vikry Reinaldo Paais – 20 September 2023

Pernah nonton film Hachiko: A Dog’s Story? Film yang terinspirasi dari kisah nyata ini bercerita tentang seekor anjing bernama Hachiko di Jepang yang sangat setia kepada tuannya. Hachiko akan selalu pergi ke statsiun kereta untuk menanti kedatangan tuannya yang sehabis bekerja. Akhir film ini begitu mengharukan. Hachiko yang tidak tahu bahwa tuannya telah lama meninggal terus menanti kedatangan sang tuan di stasiun kereta. Hachiko terus menanti sampai akhirnya meninggal di tempat yang sama ia biasa menunggu tuannya. Saya sendiri sampai meneteskan air mata menonton akhir kisah Hachiko. Saking fenomenalnya kisah tersebut, orang Jepang sampai membuatkan patung anjing di depan stasiun Shibuya untuk mengenangnya. Kisah Hachiko adalah contoh relasi manusia dan hewan yang sangat intim.

A review of Marthen Tahun’s master's thesis at CRCS UGM (2008) titled “The Ambiguity of Religion: A Study of the Ambon Conflict, 1999-2001".

Liputan dari hari ketiga bersama Jacky Manuputty dalam rangkaian kuliah umum "Imam & Pastor" dan lokakarya Pelembagaan Mediasi Antariman.

Abstract
In post-conflict Maluku, there has been renewed interest in redeveloping the Banda Islands as a major tourist attraction for the region, and as a world heritage site. As practices of tourism represent culture for diverse audiences, they also inform how local inhabitants conceptualize their identities, as well as influence the processes of collective memory. The Indonesian concepts of culture draw on relationships to land, community and cosmology referred to as adat that have a dynamic and complex relationship to people’s religious identifications. In this talk, I’ll explore how Christians displaced from the Banda islands during the conflict are being “re-membered” as outsiders in the process of reconstructing culture for the consumption of tourists, and consider how representations of culture for the tourism industry can potentially strengthen exclusive versions of local identity.
Speaker
Kelli Alicia Swazey is a faculty member at the Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies at the Graduate School of Universitas Gadjah Mada. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Hawai’i Manoa. Her research focuses on identity in the public sphere, representation and the media, minority religions in Indonesia, and religion and tourism. She has designed several programs on diversity in Southeast Asia, and has been a featured TED speaker and a fellow of the INK (Innovation and Knowledge) program. 
Look at the full poster of the event here.