"Bali is not harmonious, homogenous, and static," Balinese scholar Degung Santikarma has written. "It is—and has long been—the home of many competing strands of Credit: @ Asian Art Museum
- "Bali is not harmonious, homogenous, and static," Balinese scholar Degung Santikarma has written. "It is—and has long been—the home of many competing strands of
- "Bali is not harmonious, homogeneous, and static," Balinese scholar Degung Santikarma has written. "It is—and has long been—the home of many competing strands of culture.
- The Balinese phrase "desa, kala, patra," which can be translated as "place, time, situation," refers on one level to practices that differ locally from north to south, east to west, village to village.
- But in a larger sense the phrase suggests the necessity of context—of trying to understand how meanings of events or objects are unique to specific circumstances and differ by location and over time
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