To the Maintenance of Balinese Culture

This paper discusses cultural maintenance and the role of Balinese
taboos. Today, the influence of outside societies cannot be avoided because of
tourism development in Bali. From the topic concerned, the subjects of the
study are taken from professional tourist guides and their family—wives and
children. Ideally, Balinese people must be familiar with their own culture and
outside societies must be hoped too. However, most of them didn’t know clearly
what the culture is. Culture must be maintained by people in general because
culture is embodied in religion. The problems are: first, what are the
conditions that should be understood by the community to maintain the culture?
Second, what are the necessary things that should be known by the community to
avoid the Balinese taboos? To solve these problems, the research employed with
the cognitive approach. By the cognitive approach data are taken from the informant’s
knowledge. Thus, the research revealed new values toward the understanding of
Balinese culture because the information came from the insiders’ view.