other aspects of baliness ritual life had other statements to make, some of them in partial conflict with the point that the state ceremonies made: status is all. As the negera was but one among many social institutions in classical bali, so its obsession, rank, was only one among many obsessions. but that obsession, and the cluster of beliefs and attitudes that grew up around it, was about as pervasive in the general population as it was in that small part of it