Story of Bali, Indonesia

inter-temple
Figure 1. Types of positive marriage standards

Social registers
A: Mock capture (individual elopement)
1.Unacknowledged (daughter thrown away)
2.Acknowledged (can yield type-B alliance)
B: Interancestor temple group
1.Hypergamous, implications (wargi)
2. Egalitarian implications (beraya)
C: Intraancestor temple group
1. Loosely reckoned by same generation
2. Genealogically reckoned by cousin degrees
sociological ramifications of an affinal bond. A houseyard whose daughters have all been captured and whose sons have all captured discarded outsiders, remains unallianced. Its relatively simple organization works to its disadvantage in public affairs of status.
Ngerorod represents 'complex' marriages by individual preference which are not defined by marriage class or classificatory genealogical position.' This complex field sets Bali's other marriage types into figured relief. Individual unions are implicitly advocated in rituals of capture; they are not merely the neutral absence of a more distinct type of marriage. This prevents our viewing Balinese marriage preferences
exclusively as rules for interrelating groups or categories, even though some preferences do indeed refer to specific genealogical positions and social categories. In Leach's terms, marriage by capture involves 'persons acting as private individuals. But they do so according to cultural guidelines, gratifying inducements in competition with other inducements that oblige individuals to act as members of groups
or as representatives of categories. Informants explain capture marriage as love (Ind. cinta) winning out.