Visible and Invisible Realms

Power, Magic, and Colonial Conquest in Bali

By: Margaret J. Wiener

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Paperback | 15 April 1995 | Edition Number 1

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In 1908, the ruler of the Balinese realm of Klungkung and more than 100 members of his family and court were massacred when they marched deliberately into the fire of the Dutch colonial army. The question of what their action meant and its continued significance in contemporary Klungkung forms the basis of Margaret Wiener's complex anthropolological history.

Wiener challenges colonial and academic claims that Klungkung had no "real" power and argues that such claims enabled colonial domination. By focusing on Balinese discourses she makes clear the choices open to Balinese, both at the time of the Dutch conquest and in its narration. At the same time, she shows how these discourses, which revolve around magical weapons acquired from invisible agents such as gods, spirits, and ancestors, offer an alternative understanding of Klungkung's power.

Moving between Balinese and Dutch narratives and between past and present, Wiener critiques colonial accounts by recounting Balinese memories and interpretations. Her attention to history and local situations illuminates the ways in which colonialism and orientalist scholarship have obscured the power of indigenous rulers and shows how Klungkung, once Bali's paramount realm, was relegated to a peripheral corner of the Indonesian nation-state. Both as a fascinating story and as a rich example of interdisciplinary scholarship, this book will interest students of colonialism, anthropology, history, religion, and Southeast Asia.

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Power and Knowledge
Introduction
Colonial Representations of Klungkung
The View from Klungkung Power and the Invisible World
Making History: Balinese and Colonial Practices of Knowing
The Badad Dalem: The Sources of Klungkung's Power
The Colonial Encounter
Klungkung and the Dutch, 1840-1849 Encounters with Hegemony
The Kusamba War
The Dutch and Klungkung, 1849-1908 Relations of Knowledge and Power
The Destruction of the World
"Finishing"
The Empty Land
Epilogue: A Reinvented Klungkung
Appendix: Genealogies
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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