Massurek: An Interpretation of Woman’s Power

Abstract

This paper discussed the Sangiang Serri narrative phenomenon in the massurek tradition framed in the Maddoja Bine ritual through interpretive perspectives. As a cultural expression of an agrarian Buginese society, the massurek tradition occupied a central point in the implementation of the Maddoja Bine ritual. The main problem focused on how the ideology of an agrarian Buginese society reflected through the figure of Sangiang Serri in the “Meong Palo Karellae”. It presented in the massurek oral tradition. The data analyzed was surek “Meong Palo Karellae” text which told about Sangiang Serri. The analysis showed that the figure of Sangiang Serri was a metaphor that represented gender ideology in Buginese people. Women's Buginese perspective occupied a central position in building and created harmony in human relationships with God, human beings, and nature.