Trance and Dance in Bali

For more information and to download this film, please visit Husband and wife anthropologists Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead ventured to the island of Bali (now Indonesia) in 1936 to document the countrys culture including such behaviors as parentchild interactions, artists at work, and ritual performances and ceremonies in which participants meditate to reach a halfconscious state in order to commune with spirits of ancestors. When possessed by these spirits,