Banua or Negara? The Culture of Land in South Bali

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20073700
AutoresG Macrae (0000-0003-2323-1314, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Fecha de publicación2006-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoCHAPTER
RevistaSharing the earth, dividing the land (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialANU Press (PUBLISHER • AU)
DOI10.22459/sedl.10.2006.04
OpenAlexW2972595175
ISBN9781920942694
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas8

Land has always been a critical resource in the successive political economies of south Bali, and not surprisingly, it has also been deeply embedded in a rich matrix of cultural meanings. 1 This ,was evident to the earliest foreign observers-'There is a correlation of the people with the land' (Covarrubias 1994: 11, see also pp. 59, 84)-and has remained so until relatively recently. In the past generation, however, land has been relocated substantially from this matrix of meaning into something increasingly resembling the universal capitalist commodity hidden in the misleading term 'real estate', with all the attendant emptying-out of traditional meaning. This has happened primarily through its massive revaluation and inflation as a primary resource in an economy dominated by tourism as well as systematic attempts by the National Government, aided and abetted by foreign agencies, to 'free' it from the bonds of traditional forms of tenure and make it available to the widest possible market

Ethnology · Geography · Political science · Asian Studies and History · History