NASKAH ULU MNB 07.55: WACANA DAN PRAKTIK SOSIAL BEGADISAN PADA KELOMPOK ETNIK SERAWAI DI BENGKULU

The most general phenomenon in Ulu written tradition of Bengkulu shows that Ulu written texts have a relationship with or sourced from oral tradition texts or in social practices. There is sufficient enough evidences concerning this, such as traditional medicinal treatment texts, law customs, folk prose and poem, also numbers of texts about social practices such as paddy planting, nyialang, begadisan, berasan, marriage bimbang, and bekayekan. This research intended to disscuss about Ulu MNB 07.55 manuscript related to social practice of begadisan in Serawai ethnic group of Bengkulu. The research based on text as discourse, that is knowledge, knowledge about social practices, of how things are or must be done, together with specific evaluations and legitimations of, and purposes for, these practices. Based on codex data, known that MNB 07.55 manuscript derived from Serawai ethnic group of Bengkulu, written approximately in the mid-twentieth century. At that time (even until today), the social practice of begadisan still carried out intensively by the ethnic. Furthermore, this manuscript containts a dialogue between unmarriage bachelors and girls. In this connection, the writing of this manuscript is not intended as a record of events begadisan objectively, but is intended as the construction of knowledge about the practice of begadisan that it contains a certain value and legitimacy of identity and social functions of the author of the text. In the context of writing, the manuscript can be seen as a re-contextualization begadisan practice. Through this manuscript, the author of the text presents the reality of the social practices and contexts begadisan at the level of the other, the knowledge about the practice of begadisan