The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Balinese or Bali Aga, an ethnic group with a distinct history and culture who are thought to be the indigenous people of Bali, Indonesia. In popul
The Bali Aga are a large ethnic minority of indigenous people that live in the central highlands of Bali. In this ethnographic study, Reuter (a research fellow at the U. of Melbourne) examines their e
Specialists in Indonesia's politics and culture, most of them at Australian universities, trace some of the main steps in the transformation of the country's government to democracy since the fall of
Indonesia has experienced a quick succession of new governments and fundamental reforms since the collapse of Suharto's dictatorial regime in 1998. Established patterns in the distribution of wealth,
Challenges of displacement and insecurity that have accompanied Asia's growing participation in global capitalism have given rise to new ways of practicing and thinking about religion and cultural tra
This volume engages with the work of E. Douglas Lewis, who has made major contributions to the understanding of Eastern Indonesia, ethnography, culture, and religion, as well as a neurobiologically in
