[PDF.91cc] Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali

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

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 | #515948 in Books |  Princeton University Press |  2007-04-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.16 x.52 x6.34l,.68 | File type: PDF | 216 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| Tradition can be pretty useful!|By David Zetland|I bought J. Stephen Lansing's book (subtitle: "Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali") to learn how water temples manage water in Bali. Initially, I thought (see this post) that the priests in these temples told farmers how to share water across their rice fields, threatening divine retribution upon those who|.com |A brilliant study of how ancient the social and technical aspects of water management systems in Bali, inextricably bound with nature and religion, were undermined by the Green Revolution in the 1970s. Recommended.| |

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 irrigatio...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Priests and Programmers: Technologies of Power in the Engineered Landscape of Bali   |  J. Stephen Lansing. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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