While the rituals of desa and bhumi linking people, land and gods continue on a scale not dreamt of by previous generations, the very land to which they refer is being steadily registered, subdivided, alienated and sold, often to foreigners. Austronesian ideas and practices of land belonging to the gods and of collective ritual responsibilities, transformed but reinforced by Indo-Javanese ideas and practices are now again being transformed but this time also eroded by the replacement of collective adat stewardship with private individualised ownership, commodification of the value of land and the transformation of the phenomenological experience of land by new technologies. Likewise the residual banua-like forms in this part of Bali are being progressively appropriated by processes of aristocratic control and harnessed to struggles for power in the tourism-dominated economy. While the land is being carved up; the ideologies embodied in ritual perpetuate the belief that the earth is still being shared.