Unni Wikan

TL;DR: This paper argued that resonance is the crucial and charitable orientation that allows us to go beyond the words to engage people's compelling concerns, and argued that people in lived situations can live together in the world and understand one another with their cultural differences.

TL;DR: In this article, the anthropologist passes behind the conventions of such a complex culture to recognize what is going on between people, in terms that convey their own experience, and Wikan's study of Bali is an absorbing debate with previous anthropological interpretations as well as an innovative development of the anthropology of experience.

TL;DR: In this paper, the author compares her native Norway to Western Europe and the United States, focusing on people caught in turmoil, how institutions function, and the ways in which public opinion is shaped and state policies determined.

TL;DR: One day in Bali I was sitting with a couple trying to make out-once again how notions of "balance" and "harmony" translate into personal experience as discussed by the authors, and the man cut me short and gracefully said, "You know it's right what you say, but it is not the way we think." And he went on to expound how Balinese think, substituting the notion of 'balance' I had used with more experience-near concepts of pragmatic consequence in everyday life.