26 Jul 2023

Deconstructing Bataknese Gorga

The carved and painted decorations in traditional Batak houses and buildings, gorga, are the source of their exoticism. There are no identical patterns of the ornaments within Batak houses and the drawings are closely related to the way ancient Batak capture the dynamicity of the growing “tree of life”, one

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26 Jul 2023

How Close a Bataknese One Another? Study of Indonesian Batak’s Family Tree

The paper conjectures some alternative acquisitions of mathematical models to see the Batak family tree that could enrich our understanding of the anthropological study of Bataknese people. We discuss some aspects of Bataknese Clan‐group in Batak traditional social life. Since the family tree is drawn according to the genealogical patterns

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