Storytelling in Bali / / by Hildred Geertz.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume 304
• VerfasserIn: Geertz, Hildred,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 304.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (548 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Storytelling in Pre-modern Bali /; The World of the Storytellers /; The Circulation of Popular Tales /; Interpreting the Batuan Tales /; Storytelling as an Engine of Social Change /; Appendix 1: The Batuan Painter/Storytellers in the Bateson-Mead Collection /; Appendix 2: The Batuan Texts in English, with Annotations and Illustrations /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISSN: 1572-1892
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Hildred Geertz.

In Storytelling in Bali , Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It is completed by three years field work in Batuan in the 1980s. The tales reveal a set of strong ambivalences about the magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains within villages and families. These narratives were related in the daily settings of home and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time.