Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali - Softcover

Lansing, J. Stephen

 
9780691130668: Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691130663 ISBN 13: 9780691130668
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 2007

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For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that span entire watersheds.


Lansing describes the network of water temples that once managed the flow of irrigation water in the name of the Goddess of the Crater Lake. Using the techniques of ecological simulation modeling as well as cultural and historical analysis, Lansing argues that the symbolic system of temple rituals is not merely a reflection of utilitarian constraints but also a basic ingredient in the organization of production.

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J. Stephen Lansing With a new foreword by William C. Clark With a new preface by the author

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691130663
ISBN 13 
9780691130668
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Anzahl der Seiten
218
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