NAGA DI KANDANG BARONG : KEDERMAWANAN SOSIAL MELALUI PERMAINAN TRADISIONAL MEGANGSINGAN PADA KOMUNITAS TIONGHOA DI PUPUAN, TABANAN, BALI.

Abstract

This study examines social generosity through traditional megangsingan games in Pupuan village, Tabanan Bali. The two ethnic groups involved in this study, namely the Balinese and the Chinese, live side by side in harmony in various actualizations of social life such as education, politics, economy, and socio-culture. The arrival of ethnic Chinese to this village since the beginning of the nineteenth century cannot be separated from efforts to build an economic and cultural base which in the end resulted in cultural interaction with ethnic Balinese who had already settled in the village. Megangsingan is a form of local wisdom that arises from the response to the happiness of the farming community when the harvest season arrives. They, ethnic Balinese and ethnic Chinese want the actualization of that happiness. This traditional game then became a social space that brought together not only the interests of the Balinese ethnic economic deficit, but also the political deficits of the ethnic Chinese from various social strata. From the study of this game, the actualization of social generosity between these two ethnicities can be studied.