A01=J. Stephen Lansing
Agriculture
Agriculture (Chinese mythology)
Author_J. Stephen Lansing
Batur
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Buyan
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Chinese temple
Clifford Geertz
Colonial Service
Colonial war
Colonialism
Consecration
Cultivation System
Daisyworld
Deity
Dewa Agung
Dewi Danu
Ecology
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Feudalism
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Government Office
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Handbook
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Hybrid rice
International Rice Research Institute
Irrigation
Irrigation district
Irrigation management
Irrigation scheduling
Man and Nature
Mandate of Heaven
Mange
Marshall Sahlins
Missionary
Natural Cycles
Nicholas Dirks
Northern Thailand
Oolong
Organic farming
Paddy field
Pest control
Pesticide
Puputan
Reforestation
Religion
Rice
Rice barn
Rite
Ritual purification
State capitalism
Subak (irrigation)
Sumba
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Tax
Terrace (agriculture)
The Other Hand
Tirtha (Jainism)
Tropical Africa
Ubud
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Water for all
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Yajna
Product details
- ISBN 9780691130668
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2007
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
J. Stephen Lansing is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and in the departments of Anthropology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of "Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali" (Princeton).
