Advantages
Music of Kebyar
Commoners
Temporal Perspectives
Village Fields
Knowledge
Magnificent
Betutu
Evidences
Tropical
Mahendradatta
Music of Kebyar
Administrative

Buleleng, and Badung during the 1960s and 1970s more rife than rare. Yet, ancestor groups who have achieved recognition are still quick to disparage one on the make, and they studiously ignore how problematic their own claims to augmented status once must have seemed. Having traced thus far how the important ancestor-group options in Bali finally emerged out of cross-cultural perspectives, we will turn in subsequent chapters to current Balinese social organization and hierarchical concerns in politics and religion to depict the romance of dadia-Kawitan on the move.

R sume

The would-be science of anthropology tends to underestimate its own hard-won achievements by insufficiently recalling the changing contexts, goals, and obstacles that characterize particular cross-cultural encounters through time. While many anthropologists value and employ historical source materials, few attempt carefully to review the history of the anthropology of the societies they study, unless it is to suggest their predecessors' inadequacies in light of current standards of method and theory. Fears linger that an appreciative history of cross-cultural research might appear as an apology for pernicious distortions of the past, for ideological commitments that can no longer be excused, and for slanted views science would do better to forget. But any history of the ideas that constitute an ethnological tradition need only presume that mistaken views were likely mistaken for interesting reasons. Moreover, earlier accounts might have asked an occasional crucial question that in the subsequent shifts of anthropology s quasiparadigms has been forgotten.