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The Balinese is
a devout Hindu, but he is a Balinese in that lie perpetuates little nonsense
about caste or sacred cows of any breed or brand (Hanna 1972). The Balinese are unusually photogenic and tend to compose in groups so that half the work of photography is done for the photographer (1970). Rattier than merely appreciating how the Balinese cluster in a way which complement tier own preferences in composition - as the Nuer must do in the eyes of another photographer, or in the viewfinders of other equipment, or according to other standards of composition - the observer here implies a natural Balinese sense of group portraiture. This verges on the fallacy of inbuilt harmony. perfect integration, super systematies, and this is the ethnological pitfall that has most often distorted perspectives on Bali. Yet to complain of an occasional subjective bias is not to claim ethnology can totally escape distortion. Any holistic ethnological image of a society is slanted, since it necessarily preselects certain features of the cross-cultural encounter for
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we must point out a very important distinction which the Balinese make between
two clearly separate groups of ancestors. The first of these groups consists
of the dead who are riot yet completely purified. This group is in turn subdivided
in pirata, those riot yet cremated, and pitara, those already cremated. The
former are still completely impure; the latter have been purified, but are still
considered as distinct, individual souls. The second group consists of the completely
purified ancestors who are considered as divine. Everything Bali Indonesia |
