2009-05-04 12:21
Another aspect of "preserving" Bali was that the traditional rulers were maintained. As on Java, the Dutch adopted a policy of ruling the villages indirectly through them, while running thei… Read More
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2009-03-22 12:33
Not long after the cataclysmic eruption of Krakatau in 1883, on the other side of Java, a series of momentous struggles began amongst the kingdoms of south Bali - struggles that were to resu… Read More
2009-03-10 11:50
Bali traditional riceHistorical evidence indicates that since the 11th century, all peasants whose fields were fed by the same water course have belonged to a single subak or irrigation coop… Read More
2009-03-10 11:49
Traditional rice workOne often gets the impression that nothing but wet-rice is grown on Bali, because of the unobstructed vistas offered by extensive irrigated rice fields between villages… Read More
2009-03-10 11:47
Wet-rice cultivation is the key to this agricultural bounty. 'Me greatest concentration of irrigated rice fields is found in southern-central Bali, where water is readily available from spri… Read More
2009-03-10 11:46
Recent changes in Balinese agricultural practices have brought about fundamental changes in the relationship of the Balinese to their staple crop. Rice production can no longer be expanded b… Read More
2009-03-06 02:18
To the outside world, as to later Balinese writers, the period following Gelgel's Golden Age was one of chaos - in which fractious kings ruled from courts scattered about the island. This wa… Read More
2009-03-06 02:18
Most of what we know about Bali's traditional kingdoms comes from the Balinese themselves. Scores of masked dance dramas, family chronicles and temple rituals focus on great figures and even… Read More
2009-03-06 02:16
Most Balinese trace their ancestry back to a group of courtiers clustering about the great King Baturenggong, a descendant of Kapakisan, who is seen to have presided over a Balinese "Golden… Read More
2009-03-06 02:13
The story begins in ancient Java, in the legendary kingdoms of Kadiri and Majapahit where Javanese culture is regarded (by Javanese, Balinese and Western scholars alike) as having reached it… Read More
2009-03-05 10:39
For almost any ritual, the enormous number and variety of offerings required is quite a astounding. There are literally hundreds of different kinds - the names, forms, sizes an ingredients o… Read More
2009-03-05 10:36
The elements that make life on earth possible are transformed into offerings and thus returned as gifts to their original Creator. But an offering not only consists of the fruits of the eart… Read More
2009-03-05 10:15
Aside from a few durable elements employed, like coins, cloth and an occasional wooden mask, offerings are generally fashioned of perishable, organic materials. Not only the materials, but a… Read More
2009-03-05 10:11
The many unseen inhabitants of Bali - gods, ancestors and demons - are treated by the Balinese as honored guests through the daily presentation of offerings (banten) of every imaginable shap… Read More
2009-02-22 13:23
Purnama and tilem in the sasih calendar are for praying and making offerings, a time when rituals and sacred dances are held in many temples. Temple anniversaries (odalan) often take place o… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Lange was perhaps the prototype for Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim - a man who failed to pick the winning side in an internecine dynastic struggle which wracked Lombok in the first half of the 19t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In 1908 the bloody puputan (meaning "ending" in Balinese) was repeated on a smaller scale in Klungkung. The ghastly scene was one in which, according to one Dutch observer, the corpse of the… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
In the 19th century, Europe took up the fashion of empire building with a vengeance. Tiny Holland, once Europe's most prosperous trading nation, was not to be left behind, and spent much of… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Some, like Barbara Hutton and Charlie Chaplin, were rich and famous and stayed only for a short time. Others, like painter Walter Spies, cartoonist Miguel Covarrubias and composer Colin McPh… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Dutch found excuses to take on these kingdoms in a series of diplomatic incidents involving shipwrecks and the opium trade. These culminated in the infamous puputans or massacres of 190… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
DiggingDue to the huge amount of time and expense involved, a cremation is usually postponed for months or even years. In the meantime the body of the deceased is temporarily buried. Family… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Preserving Bali largely meant three things to the Dutch: creating a colonial society which included a select group of the aristocracy, labeling and categorizing every aspect of Balinese cult… Read More
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