Balinese

Name: Balinese
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ISBN: 9780155002401

ISBN-10: 0155002406

ISBN-13: 9780155002401

Edition: 1995

Authors: Louise S. Spindler, George D. Spindler, J. Stephen Lansing

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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 terraces; and the ethnohistory of Bali, including both colonial and Balinese views. The book is organized around four different periods of fieldwork and includes an appendix of available films and videos on the Balinese.

Book details

List price: $66.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 11/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword


About the Series


About This Case Study


About the Author


Acknowledgments


List of Figures



Four Questions, Four Journeys


The Geography and Prehistory of Bali



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



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



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?



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


Glossary of Balinese Terms


Recommended Readings


Index