Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition.

by Colin Donohue 


      

Rice offering on VW Beetle. Modern Offerings
  
One of the things that amused me when I was in Bali was the juxtaposition of offerings with new technologies and goods, such as this Volkswagon Beetle. Here the rich tradition of providing a daily rice offering has evolved into the placement of rice on Ritz crackers, with candy in a plastic wrapper, secured to the car’s front license plate.
 
Perhaps if we also made daily offerings for our cars, they wouldn’t give us trouble?
  
Photo by Colin Donohue.
  
  

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