| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) : illustrations |
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Childhood memories -- Wanderings, gambling, friendships -- Learning -- Performing rituals -- Family matters -- Painting |
| Summary |
Tales from a Charmed Life is the last in a trilogy of works by Hildred Geertz exploring the complexity of Balinese history, religion, and society. A landmark study by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of Indonesia, it centers around the stories and paintings of Ida Bagus Madé Togog (1913-1989), an artist and ritual specialist who played a significant role in the history of Balinese ethnography. In the 1930s, Togog was central to Mead and Bateson's pioneering studies of "Balinese character" and came under the influence of expatriate artists Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet to emerge as a major representative of the Batuan style of painting. Togog's art and anecdotal stories of his most memorable life experiences are here interwoven with Geertz's illuminating commentary to construct an innovative framework for understanding Balinese culture. Togog shares stories of his early life, relating dilemmas from his childhood and youth. Growing up in the wake of Dutch colonization, he came into contact with new languages, customs, and economic opportunities that presented him with puzzling and poignant experiences. He tells of his association with Spies and Bonnet and later Mead and Bateson and his role in the creation of a genre of painting for which Bali is now famous. This is a view of Bali from the inside--a vivid, highly personal look at a world where spirits, ancestors, and sorcerers have the power to intervene in one's life. According to Togog, who narrowly escaped death numerous times, his was indeed a "charmed life." The other volumes in the trilogy are The Life of a Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village (2004) and Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (1994) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-242) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Togog, Ida Bagus Made, -1989 -- Childhood and youth
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Togog, Ida Bagus Made, -1989 -- Interviews
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| SUBJECT |
Togog, Ida Bagus Made, -1989 fast |
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Painters -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province) -- Biography
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Painters -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province) -- Interviews
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ART -- Individual Artists -- General.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Painters
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Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
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Biographies
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Interviews
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Togog, Ida Bagus Made, -1989
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| ISBN |
0824874595 |
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9780824874599 |
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