Bali: Sekala & Niskala : Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art Condition:Good

Bali: Sekala & Niskala : Essays on Religion, Ritual, and Art Condition:Good"The best book on Bali for the serious visitorHas the freshness of personal experience." Dr. Hildred Geertz, author of Kinship in Bali and Professor of Anthropology at Princeton UniversityIn Bali, what you see sekala is a colorful world of ceremony, ritual, dance, and drama. What you don't see what is occult niskala is the doctrine underlying the pageants, the code underlying the rites, and the magic underlying the dance. In this book, author Fred

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