Kinship in Bali

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This work constitutes the first book-length examination of Balinese kinship in English and an important theoretical analysis of the central ethnographic concept of "kinship system." Hildred and Clifford Geertz's findings challenge the prevailing anthropological notion of a kinship system as an autonomous set of institutionalized social relationships. Their research in Bali suggests that kinship cannot be studied in isolation but must be perceived as a symbolic subsystem governed by ideas and beliefs unique to each culture. List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface 1. Culture, Kinship, and the Search for the Dadia The Search for the Dadia Balinese Society: An Overview Cases in Point: Two Principalities and Three Villages 2. Kinship in the Private Domain Houseyard and Household The Houseyard Cluster Interpersonal Relationships in the Domestic Domain 3. Kinship in the Public Domain: The Commoner Dadia The Dadia Defined Differentiation: The Structure of Dadia Organization Dadia Formation, Expansion, Crystallization, Differentiation, and Decline: A Hypothetical Model Types of Village Differentiation: An Empirical Model The Dadia and the Title-Group Teknonymy and Kingroup Integration Endogamy and Kingroup Integration The Dadia and Political Leadership Rivalry between Dadias: Marriage by Capture Structural Tensions between Dadia and Village and Their Resolution 4. Kinship in the Public Domain: The Gentry Dadia The Dadia and the Basic Unit of the Classical Balinese State Gentry Descent: The Principle of Sinking Status The Politics of Marriage The Spatialization of Kinship 5. Do the Balinese Have a Kinship System? Appendixes A. Balinese Kinship Terminology B. The Family History of the House of Beng C. Basic Regulations for the Village of Aan Notes Index