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BaliBook 1953 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a detailed descriptive account of a bi-yearly odalan or temple festival in Bali. During this festival the people of the village and the priests in the village temple invite the gods to visit the village for three days. The author has given a ...BaliBook 1949 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This volume is a study of two Balinese deities: Rangda and Barong. After examining their historical and social identities the author seeks to determine the psychological meaning behind these supernaturals as expressed in the actions of the individual...The Balinese temper, character and personalityarticle 1936 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This article examines the psychological character of the Balinese, based on the author's four years' residence in Bali between 1931-1934. By the term 'temper,' Belo means 'the nature and ways of the people as a whole.' It is the author's assumption t...Study of Balinese familyarticle 1936 • Belo, Jane
Balinese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This is a case study of an 'ordinary' Balinese djaba family, in an 'ordinary' village lying half way between the modern town and the region of the old-style Bali-Aga villages. Belo claims that since more than ninety percent of the Balinese belong to ...