Custodians of the Sacred Mountains : Culture

Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the world, the Bali Aga have long been overshadowed by the more exotic courtly culture of the south.

A closer analysis of the changing position of the Bali Aga within Balinese society provides a key to understanding the politics and social process of cultural representation in Bali and beyond. The process is marked by a blend of representational competition and cooperation among the Bali Aga themselves, among the Bali Aga and southern Balinese, and later among the island's aristocratic elites and foreign colonizers or scholars, and state authorities. The study of this process raises important issues about the establishment

Thomas A. Reuter is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, located at the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies, The University of Melbourne, Australia

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

xi

Introduction

1

(22)

Part I Banua: Ritual Domains and the Status Economy of Highland Bali

23

(228)

The Banua as a Category and a Social Process

25

(39)

Pura Pucak Penulisan: A Temple at the Tip of the World

64

(19)

Gebog Domas: The Congregation of Pura Penulisan

83

(28)

The Ritual Process of a Domain

111

(18)

Beneath and beyond Penulisan: Three Related Domains

129

(38)

A Ritual Map of the Highlands

167

(52)

The Status Economy of Highland Bali: From the Banua to Smaller Spheres of Social Organization

219

(32)

Part II In the Shadow of Paradise: The Bali Aga and the Problem of Representation

251

(96)

Representation beyond the Highlands: Preliminary Reflections

253

(11)

People of the Mountains and People from the Sea: A Balinese Model of Society

264

(28)

The Anthropological Coproduction of the Bali Aga: A Mirror of Changing Relations

292

(30)

Representation and Society: A Bali Aga Perspective

322

(25)

Notes

347

(38)

References

385

(10)

Index

395

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Custodians of the Sacred Mountains : Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali

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