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Author Geertz, Hildred, author

Title Storytelling in Bali / by Hildred Geertz
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016

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Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 304
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; 304.
Contents Preliminary Material / Hildred Geertz -- Storytelling in Pre-modern Bali / Hildred Geertz -- The World of the Storytellers / Hildred Geertz -- The Circulation of Popular Tales / Hildred Geertz -- Interpreting the Batuan Tales / Hildred Geertz -- Storytelling as an Engine of Social Change / Hildred Geertz -- Appendix 1: The Batuan Painter/Storytellers in the Bateson-Mead Collection / Hildred Geertz -- Appendix 2: The Batuan Texts in English, with Annotations and Illustrations / Hildred Geertz -- Bibliography / Hildred Geertz -- Index / Hildred Geertz
Summary In Storytelling in Bali , Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It is completed by three years field work in Batuan in the 1980s. The tales reveal a set of strong ambivalences about the magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains within villages and families. These narratives were related in the daily settings of home and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tales -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Storytelling -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Legends -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Folklore -- Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
Folklore
Legends
Storytelling
Tales
Indonesia -- Bali (Province)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016047785
ISBN 9789004328624
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