From the Margins of History - A Long Babad of Jembrana, Bali
Research program: Culture and Representation
The province of Bali in Indonesia currently represents a unitary Hindu domain adrift in a sea of equally contrived Indonesian 'diversities'. These diversities, known as agama, are compulsory official categories of religion. One area of Bali significantly excluded from many histories is the region of Jembrana in West Bali. This APA-funded thesis, completed in 2006, reunites Jembrana with Balinese history as a place occupied by historical subjects, identifying and analysing ritual interactions between people from discrete ethnic and religious groups. These interactions memorialise the 'cosmopolitanism' that is characteristic of Balinese history.
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