MENGENDUS MAKNA TRADISI APANG ARUQ MASYARAKAT DAYAK BAHAU BUSANG (Tinjauan Filosofis-Antropologis Teori Simbolik Ernst Cassirer)

Abstract

The focus of this paper is to sniff the meaning of the apang aruq tradition of the Bahau Busang Dayak community. The apang aruq tradition is a custom carried out by the Dayak Bahau Busang community in East Kalimantan Province to lengthen the earlobe. The process of lengthening the earlobe begins when a person is a baby until death. The writing of this paper uses a qualitative methodology with a literature study approach, namely the activity of collecting materials related to research originating from cultural books and Ernst Cassirer. In this paper, the author finds that there are three meanings the apang aruq tradition, namely self- identity which refers to the meaning of knowledge, beauty which symbolizes the physical and metaphysical beauty of humans and as a marker of age implies space and time.