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Author Barth, Fredrik, 1928-

Title Balinese worlds / Fredrik Barth
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1993]
©1993

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Description x, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Acknowledgments -- Part One - The Challenge of North Bali -- Preamble -- 1. A Luminous Mosaic -- Part Two - Features of Social Organization in North Balinese Communities -- 2. Prabakula: A Bali-Hindu Village -- 3. Pagatepan: A Muslim Balinese Village -- 4. Irrigation Associations and the Organization of Production -- 5. Further Variations in Village Organization -- 6. The Problem of Variation -- Part Three - Realities and Practical Concerns of Village Living -- 7. Leadership, Faction, and Violence in Pagatepan -- 8. Family, Marriage, and Making a Living in Pagatepan -- 9. Factionalism in Prabakula -- 10. A General Framework for Analyzing the Meaning of Acts -- Part Four - Major Traditions of Knowledge -- 11. Islam in North Bali -- 12. Bali-Hinduism as a Tradition of Knowledge -- 13. Kings, Courts, Castes, and the Bali Aga -- 14. The Modern Sector -- 15. A Sorcery View of Social Relations -- Part Five - Action, Interpretation, and Practice -- 16. The Romance of Panji and Asiah -- 17. So Many Concerns -- 18. Coherence, Hegemony, and Productivity in Knowledge -- 19. Love, Freedom, and the Multivalency of Public Symbols -- Part Six - The Complexity of Civilization -- 20. A Surfeit of Culture -- References -- Index
Analysis Bali (Indonesia)
Culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index
Subject Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Ethnology -- Indonesia -- Bali Island.
Religion and culture -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Religion and culture -- Indonesia -- Bali Island.
SUBJECT Bali (Indonesia : Province) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80015517 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
Bali Island (Indonesia) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85011173 -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008851
LC no. 92018043
ISBN 0226038335 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226038343 (paper : alk. paper)