June 2, 2020

Book Review: Richard Fox, More than Words. Transforming Script, Agency, and Collective Life in Bali.

Writing  and  letters  in  Bali  are  not  just  ways  to  transmit,  preserve  and disseminate  ideas  and  simple  or  complex  messages  and  literature.  In  Bali, writing goes far beyond these more or less ‘universal’ simple reasons why people resort to putting things on paper, or nowadays in the mobile telephone or computer. Letters and writing assume more ‘exoteric’ and ‘esoteric’ roles in Bali which not only linger on but assume new and vibrant new roles on the island. We have little idea when exactly all this started and how or why, and it is refreshing that the author does not seem […]
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