The Munaba Art of Waropen Papua Speech Community: The Tradition of Lamenting Death Based on an Anthropolinguistic Perspective

This study aims to uncover the phenomenon of the Munaba art tradition in the Waropen Papua Speech Community, namely (1) to describe the Munaba art tradition comprehensively for its speakers as part of the surrender process from generation to generation; (2) to reconstruct the thought process of the speakers of the Munaba art tradition to be continued from time to time; (3) to revitalize the tradition of Munaba arts for the benefit of national character education and become a basic capital in building the diversity of the nation through the principle of Indonesia Sentries, namely building Indonesia starting from the periphery. The phenomenon of the Munaba art tradition in this study refers to the tradition of lamenting the death of speech, which continues to be passed down through generations as a way of identifying as members of the community group. The Munaba art tradition of the Waropen Papua, from an anthropolinguistic perspective, emphasizes: (1) the importance of language as a medium for understanding culture and community, and (2) the cultural relevance of social phenomena for understanding language. This study focuses on the efforts to disclose "Munaba Art of Waropen Papua Speech Community: the tradition of death in anthropolinguistic perspective", by projecting the problem of the phenomenon of art traditions that refer to: (1) Demographics Supporters of the Munaba Art Tradition, (2) Implementation of the Munaba Arts Tradition, and (3) Transcription of Death themed Poetry.