Sisters and lovers : women and desire in Bali / Megan Jennaway.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jennaway, Megan, 1958-

Series:

Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)

Asian voices

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Indonesia--Bali (Province).

Ethnology.

Women.

Social conditions.

Indonesia--Bali (Province).

Women--Indonesia--Bali (Province)--Social conditions.

Women--Sexual behavior--Indonesia--Bali (Province).

Women--Sexual behavior.

Sex customs--Indonesia--Bali (Province).

Sex customs.

Bali (Indonesia : Province)--Social life and customs.

Bali (Indonesia : Province).

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Local Subjects:

Bali Island (Indonesia)--Social life and customs.

Physical Description:

xx, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]

Summary:

The Balinese devotion to their temples is both legendary and conspicuous, but the ways in which they enshrine their innermost desires have long been hidden. This ethnography draws back the veil by focusing on the romantic experiences of women in a rural village (Punyanwangi) in North Bali from adolescence to maturity. Delving into the intensity of passion that exists just below the harmonious veneer of traditional patterns of courtship and marriage, motherhood, and connubial fidelity, this book overturns Margaret Mead's assertions of passivity in Balinese social life.

By allowing key informants to tell their stories in their own voices and by skillfully interweaving fictionalized interludes, the author gives us not only a rigorously researched ethnography, but an intimate and fully realized portrait of Balinese women's innermost desires.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: Ethnography and Fiction in Punyanwangi 1

Chapter 2 Muting Desire: Women, Sex, and Discourse 17

Chapter 3 Producing Desire: Village Economy and Social Organization 33

Chapter 4 Marrying Desire: Locating Women in the Social Order 59

Chapter 5 Depriving Desire: Lovina Tourism and the Economy of Pleasure 99

Chapter 6 Delinquent Desire: Female Sexuality in Punyanwangi 137

Chapter 7 Expressing Desire: Women and Hysteria in Punyanwangi 181

Conclusion: Denial and Delirium: Women's Desire as Transgressive Capital 215

Epilogue: The Naming Ceremony 227

Appendix A On Ethnographic Truth(s) 241

Appendix B Discourse and Dichotomies 245

Appendix C Notes on the Village Household Census 247

Appendix D Cloves 249

Appendix E Gender and Labor in Punyanwangi 253

Appendix F List of Agnatic Descent Groups (Tunggalan), Desa Adat Punyanwangi 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-302) and index.

ISBN:

0742518639

0742518647

OCLC:

49332590