The Agricultural Involution

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520004597

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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

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520341821

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Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia is one of the most famous of the early works of Clifford Geertz. It principal thesis is that many centuries of intensifying wet-rice cultivation in Indonesia had produced greater social complexity without significant technological or political change, a process Geertz terms "involution". Written for a US-funded project on the local developments and following the modernization theory of Walt Whitman Rostow, Geertz examines in this book the agricultural system in Indonesia and its two dominant forms of agriculture, swidden and sawah. In addition to researching its agricultural systems, the book turns to an examination of their historical development. Of particular note is Geertz's discussion of what he famously describes as the process of "agricultural involution" in Java, where both the external economic demands of the Dutch rulers and the internal pressures due to population growth led to intensification rather than change.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:959406484

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The Agricultural Involution by Clifford Geertz Pdf

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:1145783497

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The Agricultural Involution by Clifford Geertz Pdf

Author : Arthur van Schaik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 906993003X

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Colonial Control and Peasant Resources in Java by Arthur van Schaik Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Harris Cohen,Norbert Dannhaeuser
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0759102120

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Economic Development by Jeffrey Harris Cohen,Norbert Dannhaeuser Pdf

This volume presents analyses on the theory and practice of economic development in rural and urban communities around the world. The 13 contributions cover topics including market systems; agricultural knowledge; modernization; population growth; conservation strategies; participatory, culturally sustainable, and urban development; globalization and privatization; tourism; and financial markets. Of interest for comparative research in the fields of anthropology, development, agricultural research, geography, and the environment. Edited by Cohen (anthropology, Pennsylvania State U.) and Dannhauser (anthropology, Texas A & M U.), who are also contributors. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Yoshiyuki Sato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015059995129

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Agricultural Involution in Late Imperial Russia by Yoshiyuki Sato Pdf

Author : Alan Mayne Strout
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Agricultural development projects
ISBN : OCLC:32576556

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Aspects of Agricultural Productivity on Java and the Outer Islands, and Second Thoughts about the Demise of Agricultural Involution by Alan Mayne Strout Pdf

Author : Gary E Hansen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429716102

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Agricultural And Rural Development In Indonesia by Gary E Hansen Pdf

This book provides a broad, interdisciplinary overview of the major facets of Indonesia's contemporary agricultural and rural development, while exploring the macro and micro factors that account for uneven development patterns. In assessing the rate and distribution of economic growth within the rural sector of the Indonesian archipelago, the auth

Author : Gordon Paul Temple
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : OCLC:32608821

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The Decline of Agricultural Involution by Gordon Paul Temple Pdf

Author : Cai Fang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000738759

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China's Economic Development by Cai Fang Pdf

Cai Fang is one of China’s most distinguished economists. This book elucidates the worldwide significance of China’s economic development over the past 70 years from the perspectives of economic history and growth theory. The Chinese economy has undergone an unprecedented period of growth and development since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s; a process which the hallmarks of neoclassic economic theory have often proved inadequate to explain. Examining the Chinese economy in the light of Chinese history and the development of the world economy as a whole, the book charts the milestones and critical reforms of China’s economic development, providing insights into unique attributes as well as more generic patterns. The discussion covers multiple hot topics in the field, including the so-called Great Divergence, dual-sector economic development, real-world experience of the reform and opening-up, rural reform, urbanization, economic reform, poverty reduction, the latter day slowdown of China’s economic growth, and China¡ ̄s role in and response to globalization, global supply domination and other headwinds. The book will be a must-read for students, scholars and general readers interested in the Chinese economy, economic development, political economy, and development economics.

Author : Philip C. Huang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 880 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804717885

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The Peasant Family and Rural Development in the Yangzi Delta, 1350-1988 by Philip C. Huang Pdf

How can we account for the durability of subsistence farming in China despite six centuries of vigorous commercialization from 1350 to 1950 and three decades of collectivization between 1950 to 1980? Why did the Chinese rural economy not undergo the transformation predicted by the classical models of Adam Smith and Karl Marx? In attempting to answer this question, scholars have generally treated commercialization and collectivization as distinct from population increase, the other great rural change of the past six centuries. This book breaks new ground in arguing that in the Yangzi delta, China's most advanced agricultural region, population increase was what drove commercialization and collectivization, even as it was made possible by them. The processes at work, which the author terms involutionary commercialization and involutionary growth, entailed ever-increasing labor input per unit of land, resulting in expanded total output but diminishing marginal returns per workday. In the Ming-Qing period, involution usually meant a switch to more labor-intensive cash crops and low-return household sidelines. In post-revolutionary China, it typically meant greatly intensified crop production. Stagnant or declining returns per workday were absorbed first by the family production unit and then by the collective. The true significance of the 1980's reforms, the author argues, lies in the diversion of labour from farming to rural industries and profitable sidelines and the first increases for centuries in productivity and income per workday. With these changes have come a measure of rural prosperity and the genuine possibility of transformative rural development. By reconstructing Ming-Qing agricultural history and drawing on twentieth-century ethnographic data and his own field investigations, the author brings his large themes down to the level of individual peasant households. Like his acclaimed The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China (1985), this study is noteworthy for both its empirical richness and its theoretical sweep, but it goes well beyond the earlier work in its inter-regional comparisons and its use of the pre- and post-1949 periods to illuminate each other.

Author : Tania Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135296537

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Transforming the Indonesian Uplands by Tania Li Pdf

Drawing upon current theoretical debates in social anthropology, development studies and political ecology, and presenting original research from across the Archipelago, this book addresses the changing histories and identities of upland people as they relate in new ways to the natural resource base, to markets and to the state. It is an engaged study, which fills important analytical gaps and addresses real-world concerns, exploring the uplands as components of national and global systems of meaning, power, and production. It offers a significant re-assessment of concepts, processes, histories, relationships and discourses, many of which are not unique to either the uplands or Indonesia, making the book essential and compelling reading for both scholars and practitioners.

Author : Mark Q. Sutton,E. N. Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000325355

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An Introduction to Cultural Ecology by Mark Q. Sutton,E. N. Anderson Pdf

This contemporary introduction to the principles and research base of cultural ecology is the ideal textbook for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses that deal with the intersection of humans and the environment in traditional societies. After introducing the basic principles of cultural anthropology, environmental studies, and human biological adaptations to the environment, the book provides a thorough discussion of the history of, and theoretical basis behind, cultural ecology. The bulk of the book outlines the broad economic strategies used by traditional cultures: hunting/gathering, horticulture, pastoralism, and agriculture. Fully explicated with cases, illustrations, and charts on topics as diverse as salmon ceremonies among Northwest Indians, contemporary Maya agriculture, and the sacred groves in southern China, this book gives a global view of these strategies. An important emphasis in this text is on the nature of contemporary ecological issues, how peoples worldwide adapt to them, and what the Western world can learn from their experiences. A perfect text for courses in anthropology, environmental studies, and sociology.

Author : Alan Macfarlane,Eric Hobsbawm
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000538373

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History, Culture and Ethnography by Alan Macfarlane,Eric Hobsbawm Pdf

History, Culture and Ethnography: Jack Goody, Clifford Geertz and Philippe Descola is a collection of interviews that is being published as a book for the first time. These interviews have been conducted by one of England’s leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane. Filmed over a period of several years, the three conversations in this volume are part of the series Creative Lives and Works. These transcriptions form a part of a larger set of interviews that cut across various disciplines, from the social sciences and the sciences to the performing and visual arts. The current volume is on three of the world’s most eminent social and cultural anthropologists. These conversations focus primarily on fieldwork experience in Ghana, Indonesia and Amazonia and how new dimensions and interpretations were added to the discipline of sociology and social anthropology. While Jack Goody and Clifford Geertz gave a new turn and depth to the disciple through their experiences in West Africa and Indonesia, Philippe Descola, who belongs to the succeeding generation of anthropologists, added human-nature interactions into the mix. This book talks about both overcoming and understanding the importance of taking into account linguistic, historical, economic and cultural elements in the study of these societies through engaging conversations and occasional anecdotes. Immensely riveting as conversations, this collection gives one a flavour of the many different societies and cultures in far-flung reaches of the world encompassing several continents, often with no knowledge of each other’s existence, and a taste of how expansive the discipline of sociology and social anthropology are. The book will be of enormous value not just to those interested in the fields of Sociology, Social Anthropology and Ethnography, but also those with an interest in History, Philosophy, Comparative Religion and Cultural Studies. Please note: This title is co-published with Social Science Press, New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.