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locates the Points where segmentation can take place, H and C. Geertz 1975.
To this African segmentary ideology, the authors Oppose the Balinese differentiation ideology which 'completely lacks any cultural image or assumption of long chains or lines of descent. Balinese ideology of organizational forms concerns the sacred origin-point (kawitan) and its spatial, legendary, religious, and kinship properties. Their study analyzes the sociological effects of this ideology in its most concentrated state, an extreme case of kawitan entrenched in the ardently traditionalist East-Central area of the Bah-Hindu culture cradle.

In Part 11 we will detect kawitan ideology as it diffuses across the Balinese religious and political landscape. Our examples come from the peripheral kingdoms, of precolonial Bali, and even from fringe areas that were just being settled and organized according to Bah-Hindu principles as the Dutch took control. Here groups had riot been assigned pacatu-ritual duties by court centers before colonialism; but in their subsequent development, which continues today, they have persisted in referring to pacatu concepts and courtly models. Under the conditions reported front Tihingan, dadia options of in-marriage and ritual self-sufficiency among a group of supposed progeny serve to fold a community in on itself and to intensify local status competition. Thus where population is dense and all the riceland is under cultivation and water resources are exhausted, this ideology can sustain intense status competition at the expense of rivals. But where resources are still to be tapped, these same principles - in their social form the dadia, in their religious form, kawitan - reveal their dynamic potential. A sacred ancestral source is projected and ceremomalized by descendants who, as they propagate, tend both to marry back into the more direct lines of descent from the reputed ancestor and to tie other areas (along with their products, groups, and arts) to this same sacred source so to elevate its importance. There is an intensification of attachment to the ancestor temple, which then serves as a sort of religious anchor for the expanding associates and the resources they control that are converted into offerings at tile appropriate festival dates,