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Strotelling in Bali
In storytelling in bali, Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as and engine of social change in Bali in the 1930 S. 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 this completed by three years field world in Batuan in the 1980 S. the tales reveal a set of strong ambivalances about magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains withing village and families. these narratives were related in the daily settings of homes and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time.
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