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optional, presumably patrilineal, groups with no exogamous clans, rather preferentially pat riparallel-cousin marriage. (9) Bilateral generational kinship terms, complicated by an array of titular and status designations (cf. Geertz 1966). (10) Total incorporation of women into their husbands' lines (and traditionally, widow burning by rajas). (11) In the intensely Hinduized plains, an elaboration of death rites and subsequent cremation, whereby even the lowliest commoners participated in the elite ancesto r- focused caste-ideology. These are just to name a few; it was a provocative list, but one with little sense of interrelationship.

The other major enterprise of scholars in South Bali was the cumulative archae-

ological and philological research on the continually renewed Balinese religious
edifices and sacred texts, all critical to any serious ethnological ii.terpretation. Morc-
over, 1 Wayan Bhadra and other Balinese scholars trained in Dutch methods made
studies of their own society.' And a more pragmatic brand of research growing out
of the adatrechbundels continued until the collapse of the colonial administration.
LB. Bakker (1937), for example, described consumption patterns and itemized