Under the Spell of the Batur Volcano

Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Ph.D. (1975), Habilitation (1985) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Göttingen (Emerita since 2016). She carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and Cambodia. Her recent publications focus on the ritual and political organization of space and on material culture, cultural property, and cultural politics, including Between Harmony and Discrimination. Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok (Brill, 2014).Jörg Hauser is a free-lance photographer who has established visual documentations during the ethnographic fieldwork of Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin since 1972.

• AcknowledgmentsList of Illustrations and Tables1 Introduction1 Bali’s Past and One of Its Blind Spots: Buddhism2 The Balinese State or the Impact of Western Theories3 Pura Ulun Danu Batur as a State Temple4 Unravelling Threads of History5 The Organization of the Book2 Living beneath the Batur Volcano1 Fire-Spitting Mountain and Shaking Ground2 An Old Village Map and Its Clues3 Concluding Comment3 The Batur Temple Complex and Differences Within1 Pura Ulun Danu Batur2 The Temples of Desa Pakraman3 Pura Dang Kahyangan and Other Shrines of Batur Village Deities4 Concluding Comment4 The Social Organization of the Batur Temple1 Village Association and bale agung as the Organizational Centre2 The High Priests of Pura Ulun Danu3 The Office of perbekel/petinggi4 Desa Pakraman and High Priests: Acknowledging Ritual Leadership5 Concluding Comment5 Relics of a Monastic-Political Domain and Its Demise1 Pura Jati Today2 Pura Jati’s Origin: the Blackened Stump and warga Kayu Slem3 Concluding Comment6 Centre and Periphery: the Ritual Organization of a Sacro-Political Domain1 From the Periphery to the Centre: the Pilgrims’ Tributes2 From the Centre to the Periphery: the Visits of Batur’s Deities3 Concluding Comment7 Resistance, Compliance and the Introduction of Indirect Rule1 Vertical Relationships between Court and Villages2 Beyond Village Egalitarianism: Hierarchical Offices3 Concluding Comment8 Reshaping Polities and Sacred Sites: Infiltrations and Relocations1 The Annihilation of Powerful Sites and Their Rulers2 Baturenggong’s Regulation Addressed to Sinarata3 Relocations and Transformations4 Pura Dalem: the Commemoration of Vanished Villages and Offices5 Concluding Comment9 Transfer and Merging of Fertility Rituals of Former Autonomous Temples1 Escaping Reorganization: the Office of Virgin Priestesses, balyan2 The Consolidation of Fertility Rituals in Pura Ulun Danu Batur3 Concluding Comment10 The State Temple as a Political and Economic Hub1 Temple Economy: the Temple’s pasyan, the Ruler’s kaule2 In the Steps of Former Rulers, and the Money Economy3 Concluding Comment11 Exploring the Site and Rulership of a Pre-Majapahit Court1 Pura Dalem Balingkang: a Court Turned into a Temple2 Harbours, Trade and Kings3 The Reception of Merchants, kaule and Priests4 Concluding Comment12 Ritual Networks and Beyond: Segments of negara and Their Integration1 Rulers, Regional Networks and the Recruitment of Troops2 Concluding CommentConclusionAfterwordReferencesAppendix1 Maps of Temple Layouts and Tables2 Usana Bali (Rajapurana Batur)3 Usana Bali (Rajapurana Batur) §24b1–26a 14 Titiswara