Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living - Softcover

Wikan, Unni

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0226896803 ISBN 13: 9780226896809

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1990

Synopsis

How do Balinese manage to present to the world the clear, bright face, the grace and poise, that they regard as crucial to self-respect and social esteem? How can the anthropologist pass behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience?

Wikan's study of the Indonesian island of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience.

"This is indeed an important book, a landmark in studies of Bali and one surely destined to have major theoretical impact on anthropological research well beyond that famous Indonesian island."—Anthony R. Walker, Journal of Asian and African Studies

About this title

About the Author:

Unni Wikan is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway, andthe author of numerous books. She has also taught at Harvard University, Beersheba University, L'ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, and the London School of Economics. In 2004 she received the Norwegian Fritt Ord Award for "her insightful, openhearted and challenging contributions to the public debate on the value conflicts in multicultural societies."She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0226896803
• ISBN 13: 9780226896809
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 386