The roles of the Reba Ceremony

Abstract

This article conveys the significant issue entitled: “The Roles of Reba Ceremony: A Review of Cultural Anthropology”. This title was raised from the study conducted by Hoban as a team leader, in 2018 which was carried out in Bajawa district, Central Flores. However, the title was inspired by an assumption that the Reba ceremony contains a set of roles that it plays, among others as an instrument to create a harmonious relationship with the Almighty and the Ancestors. This is an important and interesting issue to be discussed in this scientific paper. Then, it aims to examine more deeply the role of the Reba traditional ceremony. Moreover, the problems as stated above can be analyzed that based on the structural functionalism theory was introduced by Talcott Parson (in Pell, 1994:60). He argues that every element in society has a function, which is contributed to maintain a system as a whole. Related to this theory, the Reba ceremony is an element of the Bhajawa Society of their life system. Based on that theory, the ceremony attached to it an important role in the life of its people.