Bali in the early nineteenth century : : the ethnographic accounts of Pierre Dubois / / by Helen Creese.

• Superior document: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume 305
• VerfasserIn: Creese, Helen, 1955-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde ; Volume 305.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 826 pages).

In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century , Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois’ Légère Idée de Balie en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830 .

Table of Contents

Front Matter / Helen Creese -- The Textual Traces of a Colonial Life: Pierre Dubois (ca. 1776–1838) / Helen Creese -- Overtures: The Dutch in Bali, 1808–1826 / Helen Creese -- The Recruitment Post at Kuta / Helen Creese -- The Transcendent Art of Balinese Politics / Helen Creese -- The Return to Kuta, 1829–1831 / Helen Creese -- The Kuta Post: An Assessment / Helen Creese -- An Accidental Ethnographer / Helen Creese -- In Pursuit of Truth: Dubois in the Field / Helen Creese -- A Textual Cabinet of Curiosities: Commentaries on History, Society, Religion and Ritual / Helen Creese -- The Dubois Manuscripts: Transmission and Intertextuality / Helen Creese -- A Textual Postscript: The Journey of the Manuscripts / Helen Creese -- Pierre Dubois : Légère Idée de Balie en 1830 / Helen Creese -- Pierre Dubois: Sketch of Bali in 1830 / Helen Creese -- Glossary / Helen Creese -- Bibliography / Helen Creese -- Index / Helen Creese.