Performance of Marhata Unjuk in Batak Toba Wedding

Abstract

Batak Toba ethnic has a wealth of culture. One of them is the wedding. The wedding is a bond carried out by human witnessed by the families of bride and bridegroom and held in accordance with the applicable rules in their respective environment to build a new household. One of the parts of Batak traditional wedding is marunjuk, in which the implementation is guided by Dalihan Natolu (as the third cultural value with the attitudes) and led by a Raja Parhata (The customary performer in Toba Batak life cycle stages of customary traditions). This article is discussed with the anthropolinguistic approach, which focuses on the text, context, and co-text conveyed by Parhata (guide to the course of the ceremony). The study is descriptive qualitative using Miles’ and Huberman’s methods (1988) to analyze the data. The purpose of qualitative research is to find the performance of marhata unjuk Batak Toba wedding. The results of this study were obtained by looking at the language performance delivered by Parhata in marunjuk ceremony, namely the delivered text, co-text or the accompanying text and the context of the conversation in the ceremony.