The Iiterary motif of head-taking in Old Javanese court poems (kakavin): cenel and varagan terms revisited

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Iiterary motif of head-taking in Old Javanese court poems (kakavin): cenel and varagan terms revisited

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The contribution analyses the literary motif of acquiring trophy heads in the context of warfare practices depicted in kakavin, court poems composed in a literary register of Old Javanese. In the first part, two terms of unclear meaning, cenel and varagan, are discussed in detail. It is argued that Old Javanese cenel denotes &apos;trophy head&apos;, a severed head rendered as a token of martial prowess. Evidence of the Navanatya, an Old Javanese account of court etiquette composed in the 14th century, is used to support my claim that fictive kakavin do reflect the practice of head-taking as part of Javanese pre-Islamic warfare culture. It is demonstrated that the status of head-taking in kakavin is ambiguous. Though typically ascribed to the characters of adharma, the king, a protector of dharma, is represented in a couple of texts as a receiver of trophy heads. In the second and third parts of this article the category of combatants called varagan., associated in Old Javanese texts with predatory warfare and with adharma, is analysed. Fighting as individuals in a loosely dispersed swarm, the main objective of the strategy of varagan. was to harass enemy settlements, take captives, and spread terror. It is argued that the category of varagan. represented young men who had to prove themselves in battle and whose major objective was to display martial prowess in front of other warriors in one-to-one skirmishing.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Iiterary motif of head-taking in Old Javanese court poems (kakavin): cenel and varagan terms revisited

Popis výsledku anglicky

The contribution analyses the literary motif of acquiring trophy heads in the context of warfare practices depicted in kakavin, court poems composed in a literary register of Old Javanese. In the first part, two terms of unclear meaning, cenel and varagan, are discussed in detail. It is argued that Old Javanese cenel denotes &apos;trophy head&apos;, a severed head rendered as a token of martial prowess. Evidence of the Navanatya, an Old Javanese account of court etiquette composed in the 14th century, is used to support my claim that fictive kakavin do reflect the practice of head-taking as part of Javanese pre-Islamic warfare culture. It is demonstrated that the status of head-taking in kakavin is ambiguous. Though typically ascribed to the characters of adharma, the king, a protector of dharma, is represented in a couple of texts as a receiver of trophy heads. In the second and third parts of this article the category of combatants called varagan., associated in Old Javanese texts with predatory warfare and with adharma, is analysed. Fighting as individuals in a loosely dispersed swarm, the main objective of the strategy of varagan. was to harass enemy settlements, take captives, and spread terror. It is argued that the category of varagan. represented young men who had to prove themselves in battle and whose major objective was to display martial prowess in front of other warriors in one-to-one skirmishing.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Indonesia and the Malay World

ISSN

1363-9811

e-ISSN

—

Svazek periodika

44

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

129

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

23

Strana od-do

165-187

Kód UT WoS článku

000385561800004

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-84961219252