LELUHUR DALAM KONTEKS ALIANSI PERKAWINAN MASYARAKAT KEI DI MALUKU

Abstract

For society of Kei, the most important relationship is the

relationship by marriage; every marriage unites two houses

(groups) in a relationship called yan’ur-mang’ohoi. The yan’ur

house is the groom‟s, while the mang’ohoi house is the bride‟s.

Each house is thus related to a number of other houses, some of

which are its mang’ohoi and others its yan’ur. In the accepted

vocabulary of social anthropology, these of a marriage alliance

relationship are defined as “wife-giver” and “wife-taker”. In this

study, we focuses on mang’ohoi house in two issues: mang’ohoi

house as origin of yan’ur house and mang’ohoi house in relation

with the dead or mang’ohoi as most ancestors.

This paper is based on data collected during fieldwork visits to

different parts of Kei Islands, in the Southeast Moluccas. For good

explication, this paper involves two steps. First, we question

marriage alliance theory in general, in order to delimit its scope

and to reconsider its appropriateness in the case of Kei society.

Second, we attempt to trace more closely to society‟s concepts

regarding the marriage system and its relation to values.