Penglipuran Village
Row of matching bamboo gateways in a customary hill village, with one house yard kept empty as a taboo punishment.
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This guide to Penglipuran Village in Bali walks the customary hill village's seventy-seven house yards and singles out the one plot set apart from the rest, karang memadu, reserved under the village's centuries-old law for a man who takes a second wife. It traces the awig-awig code and the exile it would mean for anyone who broke it. Best heard walking the lane toward the empty plot at the bottom of the slope.
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