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His wife tends a small store located in front of their house and he was recently made a local priest The authors can say after a number of visits and interviews with him, from observing him and interacting with him at village temple ceremonies, and at a village wedding, that he is poised, thoughtful, ingratiating, curious, intelligent, sociable, calm, composed, successful, respected, and exudes an air of confidence and assuredness. He does not suggest in any way Mead's typical Balinese personality of resembling schizoid maladjustment. The personalities of these two individuals perhaps are sufficient to explode Bateson and Mead's conclusions but there were a number of others in Bayung Gede and in other villages that are equally illustrative and not atypical. What was in Bateson land Mead's mind when they described the 'Balinese Character as schizoid and lacking in interpersonal relationships?

Bateson and Mead used the term borrowed babies for a sequence of mother-child interaction they called a game of mother tantalizing and teasing her child. Mead attributed the lifelong character trait of emotional unresponsiveness of the Balinese to a specific child rearing pattern: the mother's (and other female caretaker's) teasing and tantalizing the 6-month to 3-year-old child by borrowing a baby in the child's presence, thereby provoking emotions of, jealousy and anger, love or desire, and then turning away from the child and failing to make an emotional response to the child. Mead stated that once the child's pattern of withdrawal and unresponsiveness becomes established, it lasts a lifetime. Bateson and Mead illustrated this behavioral sequence in the films 'Karba's. First Years' and 'Sibling Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea, and with still, photos of two situations although three photographs on this plate dot not appear to be relevant.

The authors have observed the borrowing babies pattern but have and entirely different interpretation a Balinese interpretation. They regard it as an educational or training experience which stimulates emotional maturity and self-confidence., through the experience the child learns to control emotions of jealousy, unrestrained anger and hostility stemming from frustrated desire. He learns this by solving the problem himself, rather than relying on his mother or other family member. This is illustrated- in the film on Karba by the teased child attending positively o the baby in the mother's lap (i.e., offering water) and carrying the baby and by his leaving the stimulus that provoked his anger. A temper tantrum is the result of failure to solve the problem; he will have another opportunity at another time. The mother does not punish the child for failure, i.e., a temper tantrum. It is a f3d that Balinese mothers very seldom punish a child. The problem-solving achievement of control of negative emotions is positively reinforced by the mother's affectionate contact a sequence nicely shown in Bateson and Mead's sibling rivalry film.

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