… We move across the history of ideas of Bali to analyze flexibilities in basic social, political,
and … between Bali's dynamic, lustrous culture and Indo-European principles of 'romance.' …

… Chapter 4, Bali Now, an indigenous retrospect, is of particular interest. Part II, Social and
Cultural Dynamics (129 pages), will be of interest to anthropologists concerned with Bali in …

… in this book—and love and marriage. Every kakawin can be read … archipelago in 1597, echoed
the information that Bali and … political-cultural artifacts, the tangible evidence of a dynamic, …

… marriage, by no means all Balinese are members of such groups. In general, kinship institutions
and marriage practices in Bali … the usual way in which anthropologists proceed, but in …

… Such a romantic myth is only possible if Bali’s wartorn precolonial history is … marry into this
group, and hence take leave of their own ancestral origin temple, Balinese of higher caste are …

… on stratifying Bali as a Hindu culture with a caste system. … This would result in a “Western
romance with Bali largely … in Java and Bali, and then later for his own fieldwork in 1972. (Boon, …

… totalizing theory of Balinese society as a unified social body of which the four castes are the
… the level of the autochthonous to that of the castes. There is, moreover, a tension between …

… 1977, The anthropological romance of Bali, 1597–1972: Dynamic perspectives in marriage
and caste, politics and religion, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. Borneman, J. 1996, …

… Area of sawah owned by caste of owner and size of holding, … used since the spelling reforms
of 1972, as in the standard … based upon holy and pure Devoted Love. … It is this devoted …