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Title: Priests and Programmers by John Stephen Lansing ISBN: 0-691-02863-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 05 June, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Where the Green Revolution failed, golf may succeed
Comment: A brilliant study of how the ancient social and technical aspects of water management systems in Bali, inextricably bound with nature and religion, undermined the Green Revolution in the 1980s. Highly recommended
Rating: 5
Summary: Vital coverage of development, technology, society, states
Comment: Lansing shows, through Balinese irrigation, that technology is simultaneously social and political, but often not in the ways imagined by Western academics and development experts. A dispersed system of water temples and priests successfully managed the irrigation of multiple valleys and plots through a process in which ritual served the regulatory function of feedback. Development projects decoupled the elements of the system and led to declining yields and increased pest damage. A computer simulation of the system was eventually developed, which effectively translated the system functions into a media that development experts could understand, and led to repairs to the damage done to agriculture following the implementation of Green Revolution techniques, revealing the role of ideology in presumably technical knowledge. The study also disproves Wittfogel's hypothesis that "oriental despotism" or extremely hierarchical and centralized states grew out of the expansion and control of irrigation systems. Highly recommended.
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Title: Myth of Population Control Family, Caste and Class I by Mahmood Mamdani ISBN: 0853452849 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: June, 1973 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers and Defenders of the Amazon by Alexander Cockburn, Alexander Cockburn, Susanna B. Hecht ISBN: 0060973226 Publisher: HarperCollins (paper) Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies by Patricia K. Townsend ISBN: 1577661265 Publisher: Waveland Press Pub. Date: 29 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.50 |
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Title: Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City (Urban and Industrial Environments) by Keith Pezzoli ISBN: 0262661144 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 31 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Ecologies of the Heart: Emotion, Belief, and the Environment by Eugene N. Anderson ISBN: 0195090101 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $34.00 |
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