In East Kalimantan, this tradition is still carried out by people Dayak Kenyah, Bahau and Kayan. Among the Dayak Kenyah people, both men and women have deliberately stretched earlobes, but the length varies between men and women. Men should not be lengthened beyond his ears to his shoulders, while women should grow it out until the extent of the chest.
Earlobe piercing process itself began in childhood, ie since the age of one year. Then every year they add one fruit or earrings silver earrings. Earring silver earrings or even used different styles of earrings of different shows differences in status and gender. Such as the nobility has its own style of earrings that should not be used by ordinary people
Meanwhile, according to Dayak Kenyah people, ear leaf elongation among the Dayak traditionally serves as a marker of their human identity.
According to researcher Dr. Yekti Maunati who visited the village of Long Blooms, a Dayak Dayak village where the "authentic? similar to the Dayak people who live in rural living, it turns out the villagers of Long Blooms themselves do not all have tattoos and long earlobes. Later, it is evident that this is only partly true, because many people who have their ears cut off leaves that [had already] long. Cutting the ear itself is done in the hospital through a small operation. Only a few residents who still have long ears, and even then most of the elderly aged over 60 years. Dr. Yekti Maunati then told about perbincangannya with an older woman named Mamak middle, which since kedatanganya in Long Blooms past had originally cut the length of his ears. Here are the contents of his conversation.
"I am ashamed of the long-eared. So I cut it as did many others. I had a bad experience when people laugh at me because my ear that long. When I went to Samarinda for the first time once, people came and surrounded me and looked at me as if I was a freak. They said, 'He's ... he ate the Dayak people.? They touched my ear that long. I feel very offended. I was treated as if I was an object. I decided to cut my long ears that people were not always watching me and thought I was eating a human. That way people will not think that I am a Dayak. Of course, people can still see my tattoos, but I can hide them by wearing long skirts and long-sleeved shirt. "
If we further analysis, the emergence of shame is also caused by modernization and globalization that began to permeate the life of the Dayak people. Globalization is then made Dayak people become less appreciate the cultural values they have, because they become more appreciative of the values prevailing in the international world. Habits lengthen the ears unusual in the international community to make the Dayak people in a quandary about should they preserve their cultural values, which are now considered no longer fit with the changing times?
In the past, before globalization and modernization into the life of the Dayak people, they appreciate the cultural values, in this case extend the ears which is considered as a sign that they are a civilized nation. However, since globalization came in, came the notion that a civilized nation is not like what they were thinking during this. They began to feel they are different from other nations or tribes, which is branded "civilized" over them.
difference was then raised doubts in them, so eventually they become cultural values that extend the earlobe is a sign of a civilized nation. Rejection of cultural values is then led to only a few Dayak people, especially young people, who still runs the habit of extending ears.
Though such long ears that are unique, admired by non-Dayak community. Dayak community should not be ashamed of these physical markers, because of the embarrassment it can eventually cause the extinction of one of the values in the Dayak culture.
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