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Geography and Environmental Temporality: Ritual Calendars as Spatialized Timekeeping (Batch 0001-035)
地理与环境时间性：仪式历法作为空间化的时间计量
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In Bali, the Pawukon calendar structures agricultural cycles, temple festivals, and village governance through a 210-day rhythm independent of solar years.
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Each of its ten concurrent weeks governs distinct ritual obligations, linking land use patterns to celestial alignments and ancestral memory.
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This temporal geography emerges not from abstraction but from centuries of observing monsoon shifts, volcanic soil fertility, and rice terrace hydrology.
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Villagers map time onto space by assigning specific directions, altitudes, and microclimates to each Pawukon phase’s spiritual potency.
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Unlike standardized global time, this system treats duration as relational—measured through human-land reciprocity rather than atomic oscillation.
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Urban Balinese professionals now negotiate dual temporalities: corporate deadlines and the Pawukon’s cyclical demands for communal labor and offering.
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The calendar persists not as folklore but as adaptive infrastructure, recalibrating land tenure disputes and water-sharing agreements during drought.
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Its resilience lies in refusing linearity—each cycle reiterates obligations without erasing prior ecological lessons or colonial disruptions.
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International conservation projects often fail here because they treat land as static inventory, ignoring how time itself is territorially embedded.
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This spatialized temporality reveals geography not as backdrop but as active agent in environmental continuity and cultural negotiation.
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Even satellite-based irrigation models must incorporate Pawukon timing to avoid clashing with taboos on wet-rice planting days.
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Thus, environmental literacy in Bali demands reading time as terrain—layered, contested, and inseparable from place.