Yes Jean, agreed:- confusion, but more than this, in fact a very deep lack of honesty and understanding at many levels.
The puputans changed many things.
You've read Wiener?
look at the confusion and contradictions that permeate her discussions with Balinese people.
The problem is perhaps that people who are outside a society imagine that the state within the society is as they imagine it to be from readings of times past. In fact, where Bali and Jawa are concerned, this is seldom the case.
In respect of the ID of hilts and other things in "Bali Bersejarah". Yes, this book was published under Pak Sutejo Neka's name, but exactly how much of it did he write? I've tried to work this out, and quite simply, I cannot.
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