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Continued... domestic civic affairs;
on the other hand extreme status pride ill statecraft and religion, decorum,
language, etiquette, and so forth. This review has attempted to suggest the episodic drift in the history of general ideas of Bali. It has been highly selective and intentionally shaped; it has omitted much of importance in order to highlight aspects of marriage, rank, and the inbuilt vulnerability of authority to be treated later. We began in 1597 with false assumptions that, judging from death rituals and worship, Bah was India; we ended in 1975 with strong assertions that, judging from descent and the transmission of rights and duties, Bali contrasts sharply with tribal Africa. Decidedly, much of the progress in ethnological understanding is to delineate ever more precisely what a given culture
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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 |