Story of Bali, Indonesia

Some cultural anthropologists in America consider Bateson and Mead's Balinese Character as basically wrong in its assumption that there is a common character to most (or even many) Balinese and that this is systematically related to the Balinese culture. Some might also consider this an unprovable notion and hold that similarities of 'character traits' are illusions, based on external impressions. They might regard character traits as conventional ways of behaving which would come under the category, of culture'. They disagree that people make cultural directives part of their personal character. Rather, they believe that people conform to cultural directives. This same viewpoint would hold that the differences between Bali and America represent cultural differences, not matters of character, and would invalidate Bateson and Mead's conclusions and the conclusions in this chapter as wet

Nevertheless, the concept of national character is viable and expounded by some contemporary cultural anthropologists and sociologists.7 Wallace presented the theoretical viewpoint of anthropologists who subscribe to the concept of national character or what he called 'basic personality'. He viewed patterns of a national character as 'the articulation of a large number of components into a structure or pattern'. He defined this pattern as a set of intricate, dynamic interrelationships among different aspects of a personality or character' . The term 'basic personality' or 'national character applied to any culturally bounded group and 'tended to connote a more thoroughgoing use of the psychoanalytic theory of personality' . However, he disavowed partiality to any particular theoretical schema. The term, as he recognized it, did not imply a particular type of social organization nor a particular theory of personality; 'it merely refers

Nevertheless, the concept of national character is viable and expounded by some contemporary cultural anthropologists and sociologists.7 Wallace presented the theoretical viewpoint of anthropologists who subscribe to the concept of national character or what he called 'basic personality'. He viewed patterns of a national character as 'the articulation of a large number of components into a structure or pattern'. He defined this pattern as a set of intricate, dynamic interrelationships among different aspects of a personality or character' . The term 'basic personality' or 'national character applied to any culturally bounded group and 'tended to connote a more thoroughgoing use of the psychoanalytic theory of personality' . However, he disavowed partiality to any particular theoretical schema. The term, as he recognized it, did not imply a particular type of social organization nor a particular theory of personality; 'it merely refers to a structure of articulated personality characteristics and processes attributable non-statistically to almost all members of some culturally bounded population'.

to a structure of articulated personality characteristics and processes attributable non-statistically to almost all members of some culturally bounded population'.

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