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noted, Bateson's work (1937) alluded to central issues in the interrelation
of social and cultural form. Many of his contemporaries (outside the Dutch
administration) prudently avoided documenting the workings of social organization
and concentrated on the arts and the psyche instead (Belo 1970). The major
exception was Jane Belo's work prior to her interest in the culture and
personality school. She published several ethnographic analyses that were
admired by Dutch adat-scholars. Most notably, her study of a Balinese family
(1936) was favorably reviewed by Dutch scholars in the journal Djawa (Goris
1937 Brandts Buys 1937); it was the first effort to assess the importance
of fathers-brothers-daughter's marriage (that is, patrilateral-parallel
cousin).
Here was something. whose significance had been grossly underestimated. This type of union had not even been mentioned in the Encyclopedia's review of marriage. Korn, drawing on Kat Angelino's analysis (1920), later alludes to it in discussing legends of royal prerogatives and divine unions (1932). But Belo first stressed the possible frequency of such unions within a given group and, through lier familiarity with recent anthropological kinship and marriage theory, attempted to analyze the significance of this preference in Balinese family structure. She misjudged the typicality of her case study, calling ordinary what must have been an ascendant group, and she failed to consider patriparallel-cousin marriage in light of other types. But that slic found such a striking example of a favored anthropological.
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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 |
