Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century
Subtitle: the Ethnographic Accounts of Pierre Dubois
By: by Helen Creese
Contributors: Dubois, Pierre, -1838; Dubois, Pierre, -1838
Series: Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- volume 305; Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde -- 305.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 826
ISBN-13: 9789004315822; 9789004315839
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Ethnology; Colonies; History
Description: "In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest sustained cross-cultural encounter between the Balinese and the Dutch through the eyewitness accounts of Pierre Dubois, the first colonial official to live in Bali. From 1828 to 1831, Dubois served as Civil Administrator to the Badung court in southern Bali. He later recorded his Balinese experiences for the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences in a series of personal letters to an anonymous correspondent. This first ethnography of Bali provides rich, perceptive descriptions of early nineteenth-century Balinese politics, society, religion and culture. The book includes a complete edition and translation of Dubois' Légère idée de Bali en 1830/Sketch of Bali in 1830"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 792-809) and index.