Contents Prelude ix Acknowledgments xvii Early Indonesian Studies: Birds, Words, and Orangutans; or Divinity, Degeneracy, and Discourse 2 Colonialist Countertypes: Emblazoning Bali versus Rejang ‘and Java; or Representations and Ambivalence 28 Alliteratve Interlude: Entexted Ethnology, Hybrid History, Basics of Baliology, Ritual-cum-Rhetoric 50. Siwaic Semiotics: Allegorical Machineries, Spatial Desituations, Polycosmology, Parodic Performance 70 ‘Twice-Bom Twins Times Two: Legendary Marriage Structures ‘and Gender in Hierarchic versus Asymmetric Houses 94 Indo-European Affinities: Ritual-rhetorics of “Love” Across Courtly Cultures, Contexts, and Times 16 Oppositionally Hindoo: Heterodoxies and Reformisms Dispersed 142 Concluding Destinations: Tantric Fragments, Extremest Extremes 158 Postlude: Mead’s Mediations—Some Separations from the Sepik, by way of Bateson, on to Bali, .. . and Beyond m Notes 199 Bibliography 213, Index 241Prelude ‘over neutral, seldom transparent evidence of Bali has been depos- ited over many centuries, t texts, lots of languages, and di- These facts open avenues of comparison: fundamental, unavoidable com- Paso. This book traverses several such avenues and afew detours. institutions selected for the multiple ‘countertypes, contradictions, and even ironies they contain. The book’s contents flow quasichronologically from sixteenth-century ‘wansmitted sources to nineteenth-century narratives, contrastive histories,Prelude tnd indoogy to ssumulated evidence of Balinese performaness an somio~ tes: to soil stuties and myths of gender irene and marge alan, Compared across Bali and Easter Indonesia and ack f ea of renunciation and asceticis past, including Goethe's sometimes “Family ial epigraph from Goethe could have been ‘Weber citing Goethe or from others the oF Goethe. The epigraph from Prichard ‘constructions may not be discontinuous with contemporary postmodernist anthropology. The third epigraph, drawn from segs No mor tan ; see ween Shouse elre or Sua ofeenal rn Tico : ‘clon ihe pte ator ea lese someting behing er ow ay thing away. Pasts keep accumulating, often reverberating, and never quite siteeur Prelude ‘Topics and tactics can be oullined roughly as follows. Chapters 1 {race still-disturbing ideas in early modern European accounts alogus of varieties of cross-cultural reading and represen t My text offers an ensemble Tcons and captions provided at the outset of each chapter—some visual emblems, some verbal emblems —should complement and disperse the posi- tions taken in the interlude. Critical concepts red when they parallel properties of the forms under investigation. I discount any pat distinction be- {seen emicletic and try to see every subject or document interpreted as in torn 4m agent interpreting. Chapter 3 also provides yet another overture to Bali to aspire to paradoxical ow culture (afterall, ca existe) as discourteous to other, in a seriously play.