The Balinese /
This study of the complex Balinese culture examines Balinese concepts of personhood and society; the integration of art into every aspect of Balinese life; the effects of the Guen Revolution on Balinese agriculture; the ecological role of their water temples in an age-old system of inigrate rice ter...
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| Language: | English |
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Fort Worth :
Harcourt Brace College Publishers,
c1995
Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Publishing, c1995 Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Pub., ©1995 Fort Worth, Texas : [1995], ©1995 Fort Worth, Texas: c1995 Fort Worth, Texas: c1995 Fort Worth, Texas : [1995] |
| Series: | Case studies in cultural anthropology
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Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Four Questions, Four Journeys. The Geography and Prehistory of Bali
- Ch. 2. Beginning Fieldwork. Beginning Research. Defining a Research Topic. The Balinese Map of the Inner and Outer Worlds. The Tika: Cycles of Time. The Inner Compass and the Human Life Cycle. The Inner Compass and the Community
- Ch. 3. Art and Everyday Life. Alango. Taksu and a Poet's Right. Taksu and the Puppeteer People. Art in the Villages. Art, Ritual, and Temples. A Calon Arang Performance at the Temple of Death
- Conclusion: Art and Balinese Culture
- Ch. 4. The Goddess and the Green Revolution. The Goddess of the Lake and Her Temple. A Quarrel between Subaks. The Cosmological Role of Water Temples. Ecology of the Rice Terraces. Ecological Crisis: The Green Revolution. Studying the Ecological Role of Water Temples. Water Temples As a Complex Adaptive System
- Conclusion: Are the Water Temples Obsolete?
- Ch. 5. Bali and the West. Lost Causes and Impossible Odds (the "Purwa Senghara"). The King's Poem
- Ch. 1. Four Questions, Four Journeys. The Geography and Prehistory of Bali
- Ch. 2. Beginning Fieldwork. Beginning Research. Defining a Research Topic. The Balinese Map of the Inner and Outer Worlds. The Tika: Cycles of Time. The Inner Compass and the Human Life Cycle. The Inner Compass and the Community
- Ch. 3. Art and Everyday Life. Alango. Taksu and a Poet's Right. Taksu and the Puppeteer People. Art in the Villages. Art, Ritual, and Temples. A Calon Arang Performance at the Temple of Death
- Conclusion: Art and Balinese Culture
- Ch. 4. The Goddess and the Green Revolution. The Goddess of the Lake and Her Temple. A Quarrel between Subaks. The Cosmological Role of Water Temples. Ecology of the Rice Terraces. Ecological Crisis: The Green Revolution. Studying the Ecological Role of Water Temples. Water Temples As a Complex Adaptive System
- Conclusion: Are the Water Temples Obsolete?
- Ch. 5. Bali and the West. Lost Causes and Impossible Odds (the "Purwa Senghara"). The King's Poem. The Priest's Poem. Opium Reconsidered. Colonial Bali. The Post-Colonial Era. World Renewal
- Appendix: An artist's impression of the water temple system
- Appendix: Plan of the Temple of the Crater Lake
- Films about Bali
- The Priest's Poem. Opium Reconsidered. Colonial Bali. The Post-Colonial Era. World Renewal
- Appendix: An artist's impression of the water temple system
- Appendix: Plan of the Temple of the Crater Lake
- Films about Bali