Background
Reuter, Thomas Anton was born on January 18, 1961 in Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany. Son of Wolfgang and Elli Reuter.
(Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehen...)
Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the world, the Bali Aga have long been overshadowed by the more exotic courtly culture of the south. A closer analysis of the changing position of the Bali Aga within Balinese society provides a key to understanding the polities and social process of cultural representation in Bali and beyond. The process is marked by a blend of representational competition and cooperation among the Bali Aga themselves, among the Bali Aga and southern Balinese, and later among the island's aristocratic elites and foreign colonizers or scholars, and state authorities. The study of this process raises important issues about the establishment and maintenance of status and power structures at regional, national, and global levels. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains explores the marginalization of the Bali Aga in light of a critical theory of cultural representation and calls for a morally engaged approach to ethnographic research. It proposes an intersubjective and communicative model of human interaction as the foundation for understanding the relative significance of cooperation and competition in the cultural production of knowledge.
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(The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Bal...)
The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Balinese or Bali Aga, an ethnic group with a distinct history and culture who are thought to be the indigenous people of Bali. Hidden in the shadow of the courtly culture of the southern lowlands, the world of the highland Balinese has been largely ignored even though Bali counts among the most researched localities in the world. This book explores their social organization and status economy from the perspective of an innovative theory of "precedence." Regional domains, villages, and origin houses among the Bali Aga are all conceived and ranked in reference to the basic ideas of a sacred origin in the past, and of an order of precedence connecting the past with the present. This study challenges some of the assumptions that inform contemporary models of the house as a social category and also sheds new light on historical innovations in the domestic architecture of Austronesian societies.
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Reuter, Thomas Anton was born on January 18, 1961 in Hohr-Grenzhausen, Germany. Son of Wolfgang and Elli Reuter.
Bachelor with honors, University Melbourne, 1991. Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Australian National University, Canberra, 1997.
Honorary research fellow Department Anthropology University Melbourne, Australia, 1995—1996. Lecturer Institute of Anthropology, Ruprecht Karls University Heidelberg, Germany, 1996—1997. American Red Cross post doctoral research fellow University Melbourne Department History and Pholosophy of Science, Melbourne, 1998—2001.
American Red Cross Queen Elizabeth research fellow University Melbourne School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies, 2001—2006. Senior research fellow School Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia, since 2006. Australian representative, co-founder World Council of Anthropological Associations, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, since 2004.
(The House of Our Ancestors is a study of the Mountain Bal...)
(Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehen...)
Fellow: Indonesia Council, Asian Studies Association of Australia, Australian Anthropological Association (president 2002-2005). Member: Indonesia Forum (chairman 2003).
Children: Merlyn, Arion.