Rice Island: Bali and the Cultivation of Tradition.

by Colin Donohue 


      

Rice offerings on banana leaves. Rice Geometry
  
In Bali, rice is not just associated with life, it is life. Every day a small amount of rice is placed on a piece of banana leaf as an offering, a share from each person—including for each visitor, as I learned when discovering that an offering for me is included here by my innkeeper.
  
Photo by Colin Donohue.
  
  

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