Lestari, Septya Dwi (2026) A CROSS-CULTURAL FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND INDONESIAN AGRARIAN BELIEFS IN SACRED FEMININITY IN HOPI CORN DANCE AT HOTEVILLA AND WIWITAN CEREMONY. Undergraduate thesis, Faculty Of Humanities.

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Abstract

This cross-cultural, feminist reading of the Hopi Corn Dance and Javanese Wiwitan agricultural rituals explores the body and digitised performance of holy femininity. In this research, a feminist performance analysis will be the qualitative method utilised to analyse two YouTube video clips as primary ethnographic texts. A theoretical framework is employed to analyse the formation of sacred femininity through embodied movement, ritual objects, and spatial arrangements, using performance theory, visual semiotics and documentary representations. The findings indicate that both cultures represent the concept of sacred femininity through movement as a physical practice and emphasise women as ecological stewards and resistive figures to capitalist and colonial homogenisation. The Hopi ritual is performed under an egalitarian paradigm and a plaza-based framework based on the complementarity of genders. A digital observational approach is used to keep the sacred space away from consumption by outsiders. The Javanese ceremony, on the other hand, relies on a highly mediated and theatrical procession in which women exercise horizontal governance through communal feasts using expository digital visibility. Basically, both mediated rituals constitute crucial ecofeminist paradigms through which to reimagine sacred femininity.
Keywords: sacred, agrarian rituals, cross-cultural feminist, Hopi Corn Dance, Wiwitan, digital representation

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