Bridges to the Ancestors: Music, Myth, And Cultural Politics at an Indonesian Festival

By David D. Harnish

The spectacular Lingsar festival is held annually at a village templecomplex built above the most abundant water springs on the island ofLombok, near Bali. Participants come to the festival not only for theefficacy of its rites but also for its spiritual, social, and musicalexperience. A nexus of religious, political, artistic, and agrarianinterests, the festival also serves to harmonize relations betweenindigenous Sasak Muslims and migrant Balinese Hindus.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482914X
• ISBN13: 9780824829148
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"