Konstruk Sosial-Ekonomi: Analisis Budaya Arisan Merarik dalam Pernikahan Masyarakat Suku Sasak di Lombok
Keywords:
Merarik, Sasak Tribe, Social Capital, Economic Anthropology, Arisan MerarikAbstract
There remains an unresolved tension between the romanticized caricature of Merarik as a mere display of symbolic masculinity and its underlying reality as a rigid, macro-social economic structure within the Sasak ethnic group. This issue demands that we momentarily suspend the conventional verdict of "customary burden" to investigate how this elopement ritual actually functions as a sophisticated arena where social capital is converted into material resilience through highly precise mechanisms. By interrogating the phenomenon through the Bourdieusian lens of habitus and symbolic capital, this qualitative ethnographic inquiry seeks to transcend cultural reductionism by mapping how instruments such as Aji Krame and Pisuke operate as engines of status negotiation, where every financial transaction appears not as irrational extravagance but as a strategic deposit of trust within an expansive kinship network. Culture is sanctified accounting. To a certain extent, the findings suggest that the persistence of Banjar and Arisan Merarik might represent a form of informal social protection that, quite surprisingly, manages to redistribute individual financial risks into the womb of the collective, creating an organic insurance scheme that remains largely invisible to the radar of formal financial institutions. Although the pressures of modernity and legal formalism continue to encroach upon traditional spaces, the Merarik tradition seems to persist due to its unique ability to reconcile individual aspirations for prestige with the communal necessity for economic stability. This research concludes that beneath the performative "abduction" of the bride lies a local wisdom that balances personal ambition with collective economic endurance. Solidarity is a currency that never devalues.
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