Study Of the Cultural Elements of Muna Ethnic Based on Oral Tradition and Archeology Sources as Cultural Heritage

Abstract

The tale of the dragon and his friends is one of Indonesia’s intangible cultural heritages found among the Muna Ethnic group. This study is important to the maintenance the cultural heritage. Research aims to describe and examine the cultural elements contained in the dragon and friends tales which are reinforced by the archaeological findings found in the Muna Ethnicity in Muna Regency. The research method used was qualitative with data collection techniques recordings (voice) and interviews. Then, the data analysis was carried out by content analysis of the data transcription results which were previously translated from Muna Language into the Indonesian Language. The next step was to compare and analyze data from The next step is to compare and analyze those witch archaeological data found in Muna Regency. The final step was concluding. The result of this research shows that the cultural elements contained in the oral tradition sources of dragon and friends tales as well as in Archaeological remains were language, technological system, social organization system, art, religious systems, social organization system, knowledge system, and livelihood systems. Apart from the cultural elements, one of the embodied messages especially found in Dragon and Friend’s tales is the use of logical thinking. In this case, humans must use their logical thinking to solve every problem in life, as exemplified by the character of o mie (a human being) who thought logically and calmly to eradicate the Jinn.