Igal:The traditional performing arts of the bajau laut in Semporna, Sabah / Hafzan Zannie Hamza
This thesis examines the concept and meaning of igal, an indigenous dance tradition of the Bajau Laut community in Semporna, Sabah. Igal or ‘dance’ to the Bajau Laut community signifies more than just a ‘dance’. This thesis posits that igal represents Bajau Laut’s culture, heritage, worldview, an...
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5001/1/HAFZAN_ZANNIE_HAMZA_%2D_MASTERS_DISSERTATION_2014_%2D_CULTURAL_CENTRE.pdf http://studentsrepo.um.edu.my/5001/ |
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| Summary: | This thesis examines the concept and meaning of igal, an indigenous dance tradition of
the Bajau Laut community in Semporna, Sabah. Igal or ‘dance’ to the Bajau Laut
community signifies more than just a ‘dance’. This thesis posits that igal represents
Bajau Laut’s culture, heritage, worldview, and cultural memory; through its
epistemology and the construction of its form and content. The practice and
performance of igal in Bajau Laut cultural landscape articulates the psychological
impression of concept and meaning, and is signified as the Bajau Laut restored
behavior. Thus, it is necessary to uncover the concept and meaning of igal through
investigative studies on its practices and performances within the Bajau Laut traditional
landscapes as well as stage performances. This thesis adopted Ferdinand de Saussure’s
dyadic model of decoding the sign - signifier and signified; to investigate, interpret and
understand the holistic conception of meaning of igal in the Bajau Laut society. This
thesis also incorporated Richard Schechner’s concepts of performativity and restored
behavior to elucidate the culturally structured movement system of the Bajau Laut
community as a performative, symbolic and reflexive “performance.” This thesis
attempts to discuss that igal as a structured movement system, is a performative
expressions of an explicit and implicit coded aspect of Bajau Laut culture |
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