KARAWITAN LITERATURE IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ETHNOMATHEMATICS OF LITERATURE

Abstract

Sastra karawitan is Javanese literature that is composed as verses in gamelan music. Like most literary works, 'sastra karawitan' has a message to convey to its audience. The data of this research is in the form of literary texts in ' karawitan ' art. Studyed through a qualitative descriptive approach with a cultural anthropology perspective, which was analyzed using triangulation techniques. The research steps were: 1) identification of 'karawitan literature' that reflects literary mathematics; 2) heuristic reading based on aesthetic considerations of literary mathematics; 3) hermeneutic interpretation of 'sastra karawitan' that contains literary mathematics, 4) significance ( the meaning) to understand aspects of life wisdom in the work, and 5) drawing conclusions. The results show that mathematics in 'sastra karawitan' is found in four forms, namely: 1) 'sulukan' a song chanted by the puppeteer, 2) 'bawa' a single song to begin a ' ginging ' , 3) 'sindhenan' a song sung by a woman called 'pesindhen', and 4) 'jineman' an irregular form of song, usually adapted to the purpose of the performance. Based on the analysis, it can be concluded that ethnomathematics in karawitan literature is divided into three groups, namely: 1) organomathematic homology of 'sastra karawitan' which contains life parallels; 2) ethnomathematical cultivation of 'sastra karawitan' which contains a reflection of life with local mathematical expressions; and 3) zooanthropological ecomathematics of 'sastra karawitan' which contains mathematical expressions with environmental nuances, and is seasoned with animal aspects in the text.