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Tales From A Charmed Life A Balinese Painter Reminisces
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by Geertz, Hildred.; Ida Bagus Made Togog

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Tales from a Charmed Life is the last in a trilogy of works by Hildred Geertz exploring the complexity of Balinese history, religion, and society. A landmark study by one of the most distinguished anthropologists of Indonesia, it centers around the stories and paintings of Ida Bagus Mad Togog (1913-1989), an artist and ritual specialist who played a significant role in the history of Balinese ethnography. In the 1930s, Togog was central to Mead and Bateson's pioneering studies of "Balinese character" and came under the influence of expatriate artists Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet to emerge as a major representative of the Batuan style of painting. Togog's art and anecdotal stories of his most memorable life experiences are here interwoven with Geertz's illuminating commentary to construct an innovative framework for understanding Balinese culture.

Togog shares stories of his early life, relating dilemmas from his childhood and youth. Growing up in the wake of Dutch colonization, he came into contact with new languages, customs, and economic opportunities that presented him with puzzling and poignant experiences. He tells of his association with Spies and Bonnet and later Mead and Bateson and his role in the creation of a genre of painting for which Bali is now famous. This is a view of Bali from the inside--a vivid, highly personal look at a world where spirits, ancestors, and sorcerers have the power to intervene in one's life. According to Togog, who narrowly escaped death numerous times, his was indeed a "charmed life."

The other volumes in the trilogy are The Life of a Balinese Temple: Artistry, Imagination, and History in a Peasant Village (2004) and Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead (1994).

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  • Title Tales From A Charmed Life A Balinese Painter Reminisces
  • Author Geertz, Hildred.; Ida Bagus Made Togog
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Annotated editio
  • Pages 280
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu:
  • Publication date April 30, 2005
  • Features Annotated, Bibliography, Dust Cover, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780824828226
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Cultural Region: Southeast Asian

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