A01=Clifford Geertz
agricultural
agricultural history
agricultural technology
agriculture
analytical
anthropology
asian history
Author_Clifford Geertz
Category=RNC
Category=TV
colonial geography
comparative writing
contemporary indonesia
dutch control
dutch imperialism
earth sciences
ecological change
ecologists
ecology
economics
environmental studies
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ethnographers
ethnography
historical perspective
indonesia
nonfiction study
physical environment
post war indonesia
postcolonial
social history
sociology
soil science
Product details
- ISBN 9780520004597
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1969
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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'A remarkably interesting account of Indonesian agricultural history, primarily covering the period of Dutch control, from 1619 to 1942. Drawing on ecology, sociology, and economics, Geertz...provides an insightful and persuasive analysis' - "The Annals". 'If colonial geography ever succeeds in establishing itself as a discrete and integral focus of inquiry, it may well date its majority to the publication of "Agricultural Involution"' - "Geographical Record". 'A brilliant and superbly written study...an incisive, even frightening description of the most crucial dilemma in contemporary Indonesia' - "Agricultural History". 'A valuable and important study...in which source materials from history, economics, soil science, geography and other fields are brilliantly marshalled and interrelated. But besides being an exemplary study in the interaction of history, physical environment and agricultural technology, this book represents a watershed between narrowly conceived ethnographies and the flood of verbose and ill digested post-war 'technology-and-social-change' monographs that are wont to aim high and hit wide...A model of comparative analytical writing' - "Man".
Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
