by Colin Donohue
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Rice: The Fabric of Life In Bali, rice is the fabric into which all of life is stitched. The Balinese culture is so intimately connected with wet rice farming that every ceremony relates to rice. Each day, the Balinese people make offerings of rice. And Balinese society is based on the cooperation that is required to grow the intensely-irrigated crop. Balinese rice cultivation is also one of the most advanced agricultural systems in the world. From the traditional knowledge of how to cultivate rice, to the use of animals in preparing rice fields for planting, to the production of fish in flooded rice paddies, and to the flying of kites to scare birds away from rice harvests, the cultivation of rice is enmeshed with Balinese customs and beliefs. Photo by Colin Donohue. |
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