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Balinese
People of the island of Bali, Indonesia. They differ from other Indonesians in adhering to the Hindu religion, though their culture has been heavily influenced by the Javanese. In Balinese villages each family lives in its own compound, surrounded by earthen or stone walls; all villages have temples and an assembly hall. Balinese religion fuses Hindu Saivism with Buddhism, ancestor cults, and belief in spirits and magic. Marriage is often limited to members of the same kinship organization, and family relationships are reckoned through the male line.


baldness
Lack or loss of hair, either permanent (from destruction of hair follicles) or temporary (from short-term follicle damage). Male pattern baldness is inherited and affects up to 40% of men; treatments are transplanting of follicles from areas where hair still grows and application of drugs (e.g., minoxidil) to the scalp. Other causes of permanent baldness are skin diseases and injuries, inborn lack of hair development, and severe follicle injury. Temporary hair loss may follow high fever or come from X rays, drugs, malnutrition, or endocrine disorders. Alopecia areata, with sharply outlined patches of sudden complete baldness, is also usually temporary.


Buginese
Culturally dominant ethnic group of Celebes (Sulawesi), Indonesia. Their trading-port city Makasar (Ujung Pandang) fell to the Dutch in 1667, and they emigrated to other parts of the Malay Peninsula, establishing Buginese states in Selangor and Riau. They continued to harry the Dutch and also fought with the Malays. Their conflicts with the latter cost them their supremacy in the region by 1800. Early converts to Buddhism, the Buginese were converted to Islam in the 17th cent. Today they number about 3.3 million. Their village economy is based on rice cultivation and some trade between islands.


bylina
Traditional form of orally transmitted Old Russian and Russian heroic narrative poetry. Though byliny originated about the 10th cent., or possibly earlier, they were first written down around the 17th cent. They have been classified into several groupings, the largest of which deal with the golden age of Kiev in the 10th-12th cent. Taken together, they constitute a folk history often at variance with official history.

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