...from Coffe Culture Local Experience, Global Connections by Catherine M. Tucker. She explores coffe as: a major commodity thet shapes lives of millons of peoples; a product with a checkered and dramatic history; a beverage with mutliple meanings and uses (energizer, comfort food addiction, flavoring and confection); an inspiration for humor and cultural critique; an agricultur crop that can help protect biodiversity yet also threaten the environment; a health risk and a health food; and a focus alternative trade efforts (fair trade and environment certification programs) 

Coffe, Key of Communication

My Coffe weekly Gathering 

Reference: Catherine M. Tucker, Coffe Culture (Local Experience, Global Connections), 2011, Routledge

Style the appearance of most of the Rastafarian style mimics the legendary musician Robert Nesta Marley of Jamaica that is commonly known by the name of Bob Marley is indeed also a Rastafarian. Almost the whole of what is associated with the name of Bob Marley has always been a reference for the Rastafarian community, ranging from Dreadlock hairstyle, a love of reggae music (musical styles originating from Jamaica), until the habit of sucking up dope though not all suck Rastafarian cannabis. However most of them are just parroting what express only regardless of anything implied reversed style and habit of the simulated environment. This did not escape the influence of the media as a cultural industry that mostly just highlight this musician from the appearance only. So often the teens who were the biggest supporters of this community is merely parroting what looks without regard to the meaning of all of it.  

be patient 

smoke, crowd and fans....

....long dreadlock Hairstyle...

Rastafarian elements into Indonesia via the medium of music, Reggae music for the Rastafarian music is considered a spriritual. One of the musisinya is the Bob Marley, which is an important actor in terms of the spread of the Rastafarian not only in indonesia but also in the world. It is related to the influence of communication media such as television, which also support the process within its range. So indirectly communication media form a culture which went on to become a commodity society especially in adolescents who tend to look at a form of consumption and away from the Pack out of existence or appearance

Dreadlock Hair Style

Concentration With Harmonie

Dance of Mind

The First Anthropology of Brawijaya Field School with My Nokia E51 Camera (part 6e). Transvestites parade at Gondanglegi Southern Malang. Transvestite or Drag Queen is one of the community known as the lifestyle and unusual behavior. They are actually men, yet behave and dress up like women. Life as it is affected by two reasons: biological and social. Because biological heredity and genetic. Social factors occur due to environmental influences that participate in make a man become a woman for example live in a civil majority women and frustrating overload.

Dancing behind truck...

...salone salon..

...arrival...

...guide of parade..

..traditional dress...

Make sure has been installed properly

Gondanglegi wetan village not only have one dance of Sakera group. There are several groups of different dance costumes but in one movement and the desire to preserve cultural heritage, ancestors.

trumpet departure

the identity of the bearer

pliable dance

moves with dance   

the guard

Carnival event held for the first time in the village of gondanglegi, East. This event has attracted a lot of visitors and participants from both the community village until outsiders including students.

Children and youth

a symbol of status and prestige village chief

 big motorcycle parade

gold and wife the village chief

Bantengan (Leang Leong) is one of the famous folk art in the region of Gondanglegi. Art combines three Chinese Dragon culture i.e. in giant and Java on a bull and other animals (Tiger and monkey)). Performing Arts presents the mystical atmosphere  that is strong and many who have possessed soul (trance).

boy and the bull's head

Sound system that runs

Composing the bull's body 

the process of pasting a familiar spirit

Early trance