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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-139) and index
