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Evolutionary Clustering
in Indonesian Ethnic Textile Motifs
Hokky Situngkir
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Dept. Computational Sociology
Bandung Fe Institute
Abstract
The wide varieties of Indonesian textiles could reflect the varsity that has been living with the
diversity of Indonesian ethnic groups. Meme as an evolutionary modeling technique promises some
conjectures to capture the innovative process of the cultural objects production in the particular
collective patterns acquainted can be regarded as fitness in the large evolutionary landscape of
cultural life. We have presented the correlations between memeplexes that is transformed into
distances has generated the phylomemetic tree, both among some samples from Indonesian textile
handicrafts and batik, the designs that have been living through generations with Javanese people,
the largest ethnic group in Indonesian archipelago. The memeplexes is extracted from the
geometrical shape, i.e.: fractal dimensions and the histogram analysis of the employed colorization.
We draw some interesting findings from the tree and open the future anthropological development
that might catch the attention further observation.
Keywords: memetics, ornamentation, batik, Indonesian textile patterns, phylomemetic tree.