Staying local in the global village : Bali in the twentieth century / edited by Raechelle Rubinstein and Linda H. Connor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubinstein, Raechelle, 1954-

Connor, Linda, 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Civilization.

Bali Island (Indonesia).

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Politics and government.

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xiii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Summary:

One of the world's most intensively studied societies, Bali has hosted scholars and writers as renowned as Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, Miguel Covarrubias, Fredrik Barth, and Hildred and Clifford Geertz. Staying Local in the Global Village is part era continuing tradition in which Balinese and foreign scholars reflect on the processes of transformation that link Bali to Indonesia and the world beyond.

The chapters in this volume are based on research carried out in the early 1990s, when Suharto's New Order still enjoyed widespread legitimacy in Indonesia. Even then, political consensus in Bali was weakened by the inhabitants' view of themselves as an exploited minority of Hindus in a nation dominated by Islamic Javanese. As this book reveals, the ambivalent positioning of Balinese vis-a-vis the national and the global in recent decades has been played out in runny different spheres of life.

Contributors take up a number of themes that reflect different articulations of the local throughout the twentieth century. Early chapters provide a bird's-eye view of public culture, local history, definitions of "Balineseness, " and political struggles over land and sacred space. Later chapters explore specific aspects of Balinese participation in the transformations associated with the tourism-dominated provincial economy, the growth of communications and maw media, and the incursions of the nation-state through its imperatives of economic development and nationalist discourses.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-336) and index.

ISBN:

0824821173

OCLC:

41137673