Encounters with Ancestors in Balinese Ritual and Politics

• Event Date: Tuesday, December 6, 2005
• Time: 7:30 pm (CST)
• Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

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Lene Pedersen, Assoc. Prof. of Anthropology
Central Washington University

In Balinese ritual, effigies and heirlooms represent ancestors, but their presences become tangible also in less objectified ways, and ancestral powers continue to infuse local hierarchy and politics.