Story of Bali, Indonesia

Meads comment that if a man follows the prescribed forms he, may expect safety and if that safety is still meager, there will be a different turn to come in another incarnation touches on two concepts important to the Balinese. The first concerns the security and comfort one has by following the prescribed routines of offerings, ritual, ceremonies, traditional, work patterns etc., that fill much of everyday life. Doing right be the family community and gods brings rewards according to the principle of karma and ensures a comfortable niche in one's environment and future lives. 'Me second important concept is reincarnation. Mead provided a brief description of this cornerstone of Balinese Hindu life . Persons from cultures who do not live by a concept of reincarnation will find it hard to appreciate its significance and Power for one's lifestyle. As described earlier, the soul is inevitably recycled through a series of bodies until it achieves final unity with God . Every Balinese has another chance at life and hopes that it will be better the next time around.

Mead characterized the Balinese as 'vulnerable, but deft and gay, and usually content. This' does not sound like a description of people manifesting schizoid maladjustment and indeed it is not It is a refreshing statement from Mead about Balinese character. Examples of spontaneous emotional expressiveness can be found. The Balinese are engagingly cheerful and friendly and contagiously so. As Suryani said to Jensen on his first visit to Bali, 'If you stay in Bali a little longer, you will smile more.'

In addition to their contributions of ethnographic data, Bateson and Mead preserved in notes and on film the customs and dances performed, such as the phenomenal little girl trance dance,18 still enacted in certain villages. In this particular event a young girl, untrained in dance performs like a virtuoso dancer while standing on the shoulders of a moving man; in addition, she sometimes dances on the ground over hot coals without appearing to feel the heat. It seems likely that Bateson's extensive film footage would possess data useful in verifying a number of cultural patterns relevant to Balinese character.

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