Original upload date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Tue, 21 Dec 2021 19:00:18 GMT
For teens in Bali, adulthood bites different. Balinese teens come of age with a traditional ceremony that involves grinding down their upper canine teeth—a metaphorical and physical break from their a
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nimal instincts and ancestral roots. This ceremony is seen as the final responsibility a parent has to their child.
VICE Indonesia follows Gek Sri as she undergoes her own “defanging” ceremony to see how Bali’s youngest generation of adults is taking on a tradition with deep roots on the island and ask whether a new set of teeth is “adulting” or actually adulthood.
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