The Balinese Book

	Foreword
	About the Series
	About This Case Study
	About the Author
	Acknowledgments
	List of Figures
Ch. 1	Four Questions, Four Journeys	1
	The Geography and Prehistory of Bali	8
Ch. 2	Beginning Fieldwork	17
	Beginning Research	21
	Defining a Research Topic	23
	The Balinese Map of the Inner and Outer Worlds	23
	The Tika: Cycles of Time	28
	The Inner Compass and the Human Life Cycle	31
	The Inner Compass and the Community	42
Ch. 3	Art and Everyday Life	49
	Alango	53
	Taksu and a Poet's Right	55
	Taksu and the Puppeteer People	57
	Art in the Villages	61
	Art, Ritual, and Temples	66
	A Calon Arang Performance at the Temple of Death	69
	Conclusion: Art and Balinese Culture	72
Ch. 4	The Goddess and the Green Revolution	75
	The Goddess of the Lake and Her Temple	77
	A Quarrel between Subaks	82
	The Cosmological Role of Water Temples	84
	Ecology of the Rice Terraces	87
	Ecological Crisis: The Green Revolution	90
	Studying the Ecological Role of Water Temples	93
	Water Temples As a Complex Adaptive System	97
	Conclusion: Are the Water Temples Obsolete?	99
Ch. 5	Bali and the West	103
	Lost Causes and Impossible Odds (the "Purwa Senghara")	104
	The King's Poem	109
	The Priest's Poem	110
	Opium Reconsidered	111
	Colonial Bali	113
	The Post-Colonial Era	114
	World Renewal	117
	Appendix: An artist's impression of the water temple system	123
	Appendix: Plan of the Temple of the Crater Lake	124
	Films about Bali	131
	Glossary of Balinese Terms	135
	Recommended Readings	137
	Index	141