The Significance of Hari Raya Food Towards Malay Community in Malaysia ☆

Published Date

22 August 2015, Vol.201:175–181, doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.08.166

AcE-Bs 2015 Tehran (6th Asian Conference on Environment-Behaviour Studies), Iran University of Science & Technology, Tehran, Iran, 20 - 22 February 2015

Open Access, Creative Commons license

Title 

The Significance of Hari Raya Food Towards Malay Community in Malaysia ☆

• Author 

• Mohd Shazali Md. Sharif ^a,,
• Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Zahari ^a
• Norazmir Md Nor ^b
• Rosmaliza Muhammad ^a

• aFaculty of Hotel & Tourism Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 42300 Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia
• bFaculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 42300 Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Available online 15 September 2015.

Abstract

It is becoming a long tradition regardless generations for the Malay community to prepare and served traditional foods for Hari Raya celebration. Through observation and interview procedures, this paper describes the significance of traditional Hari Raya food from three Malay generation women's understanding on the process of Malay traditional Hari Raya food knowledge transfer. Charitable deeds, Social Bonding and Memories are significant elements in the knowledge transfer processes. Majorities of informers noted that Hari Raya without the traditional food is nothing or did not bring any significant for the celebration. In other words Hari Raya foods play significant roles in cheering or complete the atmosphere of the festive celebration.

Keywords

Malay ethnic

Malay generation

Malay traditional food

women

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  Peer-review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies, Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.

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