Ubud: From The Origins to 1920
Keywords:
prince of Ubud, knowledge of tradition, modernizing BaliAbstract
Today’s historis often tries to weave together unquestionable
facts with a narrative that consciously gives room to past
myths and legends. The following article about the famous
“cultural” resort of Ubud freely applies this approach to history.
Myths and legends about the origin of Ubud combine with
unquestionable historical facts to convey, beyond the Ubud’s
raw history proper, the prevailing athmosphere of Ubud’s
pre-modern past. Thus the mythical seer Resi Merkandaya
is made to appear alongside the story of the kembar buncing
(fraternal, non-identical twins) of the House of Ubud, and the
history of Western presence and intervention.
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