J Stephen Lansing

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Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in BaliPaperback, 16 September 2012

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Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Complexity
Part of Series
Princeton Studies in Complexity, 22
Print Length
248 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Date Published
16 Sep 2012
ISBN-10
0691156263
ISBN-13
9780691156262

Description

Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group focuses on its own problems, a global solution nonetheless emerges that optimizes irrigation flows for everyone. Did someone have to design Bali's water temple networks, or could they have emerged from a self-organizing process?

Perfect Order--a groundbreaking work at the nexus of conservation, complexity theory, and anthropology--describes a series of fieldwork projects triggered by this question, ranging from the archaeology of the water temples to their ecological functions and their place in Balinese cosmology. Stephen Lansing shows that the temple networks are fragile, vulnerable to the cross-currents produced by competition among male descent groups. But the feminine rites of water temples mirror the farmers' awareness that when they act in unison, small miracles of order occur regularly, as the jewel-like perfection of the rice terraces produces general prosperity. Much of this is barely visible from within the horizons of Western social theory.

The fruit of a decade of multidisciplinary research, this absorbing book shows that even as researchers probe the foundations of cooperation in the water temple networks, the very existence of the traditional farming techniques they represent is threatened by large-scale development projects.

Product Details

Author:
J Stephen Lansing
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
16 September 2012
Dimensions:
23.37 x 15.49 x 1.52 cm
ISBN-10:
0691156263
ISBN-13:
9780691156262
Language:
English
Location:
Princeton
Pages:
248
Weight:
362.87 gm

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