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A further complication
arises in the possible stratification of the desa membership itself. For
example Giader described a ngarep-sampingan contrast in North Bali. The village fields are passed down by heredity in the male line but may not he alienated; they may not be bought by a foreigner or even by the member of an adjoining village, Only if there is a family line which comes to an end, an exceedingly rare occurence, do the village site and the portion of the fields worked by the family come up for sale to outsiders. Land so held is called pachatu. Two other types of holding are commonly spoken of, the tetamian, 'inheritance land,' and labaan, 'temple land.' Tetamian is the type customarily owned by members of the higher castes. it is generally passed on in the male line, too, but, in contrast to village
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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 |
