Vernacular Studies

Ethnic identities in developing countries become a focus of recent research one is related to ethnic tourism. One of ethnic tourism based on Vernacular Settlement is in Cibeo Village, Baduy Dalam, Banten Province. The opening of access in Ciboleger in the 1970s opened the opportunity of ethnic tourism. This study aims to review the phenomenon of Ethnic Tourism and Sustainable of Vernacular Settlement in Cibeo Village. The research paradigm used is naturalistic with a qualitative research strategy in the form of the Ethnography Approach. The method of data collection is through residencies in Cibeo Village to capture phenomena on the vernacular settlement as a natural setting and ethnic tourism. The results show that tourism plays an important role which is not always a negative impact on vernacular settlements. Ethnic tourism becomes one of an factor in the ongoing construction of place identity and senses of a place of vernacular settlement in Cibeo Village. This study provides implication: Firts, that cultural system carried out by vernacular society determine sustainable of vernacular settlement. Second, that the key of successful Sustainable Vernacular Settlement is the growth and development of its local wisdom.

This paper aims to provide a general outline of the development of vernacular studies in Japan as well as a vision for the future of vernacular studies based on that development.
The most important thing for understanding vernacular studies is that this discipline’s full formation came about in Germany in opposition to the enlightenment centered in France in the 18th and 19th centuries and to the hegemonism of Napoleon, who tried to dominate all of Europe. Afterward, societies that shared their anti-hegemony context with Germany were encouraged directly or indirectly by Germany’s vernacular studies. They vigorously formed this discipline, but each in its own way. Specifically, vernacular studies has developed and arrived in the present day in regions such as Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany, Czech, Hungary, Greek, Japan, China, Korea, the Philippines, and India and in newer nations like the United States, Brazil, and Argentina.
What vernacular studies has consistently investigated throughout its academic history is human life on a different level from social phases that have been considered to be hegemonic, omnipresent, central, and mainstream. It is knowledge that was brought about through the close study of these. Generally, modern science is a body of knowledge produced from broad social phases considered hegemonic, omnipresent, central, and mainstream, but vernacular studies becomes compellingly unique by confronting these characteristics and attempting to create knowledge that overcomes their broad social application. Therefore, while it is a type of modern science, vernacular studies is also an alternative discipline that contrasts with modern science in general.　

Among the many traditions of folkloristics that exist around the world, this paper attempts to situate the Japanese school, commonly known as minzokugaku, outlining the process of its formation, the process by which it came to its current position, and its prospects for the future. In doing so, I also hope to provide some more general observations on the nature of folkloristics.
The role of folkloristics in a global context is a major one. Faced with the overwhelmingly powerful onslaught of globalization, how will people living in the various regions of the Earth respond to that onslaught, and how will they seek to live on in the midst of globalization? How can we express that wisdom as folklore? That is the challenge that folkloristics must tackle.