An egalitarian, open, direct, and dynamic urban culture of East Java.
Arekan is an urban and coastal cultural landscape characterized by direct language, neighbourhood solidarity, distinctive cuisine, and strong community creativity.
The growth of trading and industrial cities shaped an adaptable Arekan culture that is open to encounters across communities.
Each sub-culture gathers the expressions of one practice, community, or domain inside this culture.
A language variety based on reversing sounds or word forms, developed as a marker of community identity in Malang.
Read entry →ARK-CAKA familiar form of address for men, especially in Arekan cultural settings.
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-22DBB4An expression that people in Malang usually use in daily communication to call our him/her self.
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-702D7FA commanding, coarse-mannered character of the cycle, danced with wide stance and abrupt accents; also the name of that…
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-44B45EThe opening dance of a Malangan performance, danced before the story begins to greet the audience and mark the ground.
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-C43997The reversed speech of Malang: everyday words spelled backwards and spoken as ordinary vocabulary. It began as a code among…
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-97132EThe Panji cycle: an East Javanese body of stories about a prince and princess separated, disguised, and reunited, which…
Read entry →DEMO-KG-ARK-2FF34BThe heroine of the cycle, princess of Kediri, whose separation from and reunion with Panji drives the story.
Read entry →How the entries of this vocabulary refer to one another. Each dot is an entry, sized by how many relations it carries; each arc is a verified relation.
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