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By succumbing to the tendencies of hard sciences to purge their own pasts
and to avoid serious attention to dated concepts (cf. Kuhn 1962), anthropology
risks undermining a major basis of its claim to respectability. Rigorous
scientific verification of ethnological generalizations might be impossible
to design. But such ambitions aside, it appears indisputable that, for example,
Balinese culture and society is understood more adequately now than in 1597,
1817, 1879, 1932, or 1956. Our sense of Balinese complexity has in the long
run, not without setbacks, advanced. There remains due cause for skepticism
that studying the ethnological past guarantees avoiding the same mistakes;
besides, past mistakes are possibly more desirable than some present ones.
But inspecting the whole ethnological tradition can clarify the accomplishments
and or shortcomings of an updated ethnological overview that stands uncertainly
balanced on its shoulders.
Cultures are not captured by simple reportage. A responsible historical perspective helps correct the unsophisticated assumption that ethnographies on cross-cultural behavior are pure products of data collected. Actually an ethnography necessarily relies on more or less systematic sets of idees recus, some rechecked under differing circumstances in the activity called fieldwork, some accepted outright, and many perhaps (still) dating back to centuries-old assumptions that might well be conceptualized otherwise. Keeping gauge of the history of ethnology can
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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 |
