Bridges to the Ancestors

by Harnish, David D.

• ISBN13: 9780824829148
• ISBN10: 082482914X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

The spectacular Lingsar festival is held annually at a village temple complex built above the most abundant water springs on the island of Lombok, near Bali. Participants come to the festival not only for the efficacy of its rites but also for its spiritual, social, and musical experience. A nexus of religious, political, artistic, and agrarian interests, the festival also serves to harmonize relations between indigenous Sasak Muslims and migrant Balinese Hindus. Ethnic tensions, however, lie beneath the surface of cooperative behavior, and struggles regularly erupt over which group--Balinese or Sasak--owns the past and dominates the present.

Author Biography

David D. Harnish is associate professor of ethnomusicology and director of Balinese gamelan Kusuma Sari at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
CHAPTER ONE Encounters, Constructions, Reflections	1	(15)
CHAPTER TWO Festivals and Cultures of Lombok	16	(28)
CHAPTER THREE Myths, Actors, and Politics	44	(45)
CHAPTER FOUR Temple Units, Performing Arts, and Festival Rites	89	(32)
CHAPTER FIVE Music: History, Cosmology, and Content	121	(41)
CHAPTER SIX Explorations of Meaning	162	(28)
CHAPTER SEVEN Changing Dimensions, Changing Identities	190	(11)
CHAPTER EIGHT The Final Gong	201	(16)
Notes	217	(14)
Glossary	231	(14)
Bibliography	245	(8)
Index	253