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native classifications are found to be more complementary than at odds, There are two kinds of marriage. The first results from the whims of two persons pa acting as private individuals; the second is a systematically organized affair which forms part of a series of contractual obligations between two social groups (Leach 1961). In Bali this twofold scheme collapses, because organized, contractual marriages can occur between two actors (for example, a man's son and his brother's daughter) who, for kinship purposes other than the marriage, belong to the same social group. In other words, if two members of tire same group marry, they are treated ritually as if they come from different groups. This type of marriage is trot between different existent social units; rather, the marriage alone represents those. involved as two distinct groups. Our aim is to explain this practice and to suggest Why the marriage typology which opposes private-individual to intergroup-contractual is inadequate. Alliance theory can advance our understanding of Balinese marriage b tit it cannot exhaust the subject, because marriage options reveal the conflictive forms of drama. Individuals, groups, and, it is believed, ancestors have distinct and often opposed interests. this insures recurring predicaments. Finally, marriage here is less a matter of connecting individuals or groups than of sustaining a social individual, and cosmic hierarchy. Enmeshed in his ritualized, sometimes optional organizational modes, 'the individual Balinese is forever picking his way, like a tight-rope walker, afraid at any moment lest lie make some mis-step (Bateson 1949). In marriage such potential missteps are many, and the effort here as in other social and ritual domains is to maximise something which we may call stability' (1949), provided we appreciate the Complexity of its components. Primary positive standards Sire nor son nor loving brother rules the wedded woman's state, With her lord she falls or rises, with her consort courts her fate.
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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 |
