Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Storytelling in Bali; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Notes on Numbers, Names and Translations; 1: Storytelling in Pre-modern Bali; 1 A Pervasive Social Practice; 2 Telling Tales as Political Acts; 2: The World of the Storytellers; 1 Batuan in the Nineteen Thirties; 2 Storytelling and the New Craft of Painting for Foreigners; 3 The Anthropologists
  • Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson; 4 The Storytellers and Their Tales; 3: The Circulation of Popular Tales; 1 Written, Danced, Sung and Told Tales; 2 Wayang Tales; 3 Topéng Panca Tales; 4 Geguritan and Kidung Tales.
  • 5 Gambuh Tales6 Arja Tales; 7 Barong and Rangda Tales; 8 Satua Tales; 9 The Circulation of Tales; 4: Interpreting the Batuan Tales; 1 The Many Kinds of Meanings; 2 The Fear of Sorcerers and the Reassurances They Provide; 3 Ambivalence about Kings: Their Protections and Their Threats; 4 Worries about the Effectiveness of Priests; 5 Tensions among Fellow Villagers; 6 Strains between Men and Women; 7 Problems within the Family; 8 The Reassurance of Certain Long Ago Events; 5: Storytelling as an Engine of Social Change; Appendix 1: The Batuan Painter/Storytellers in the Bateson-Mead Collection.
  • Appendix 2: The Batuan Texts in English, with Annotations and IllustrationsBibliography; Index.