(Mobile book) Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (Princeton Studies in Complexity)
♥ J. Stephen Lansing ♥
| #643514 in Books | Princeton University Press | 2006-03-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.56 x6.14l,1.07 | File Name: 0691027277 | 240 pages |
||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Detailed knowledge|By G|This book is a very specific study of the Balinese water irrigation system. Very interesting to see how religion, politics and agriculture are related and managed through "priests". Interesting read especially if you live in Bali|18 of 18 people found the following review helpful.| A must|By murni@murnis.com |Winner of the 2007 Julian Steward Book Award, Anthropology and Environment Section of the American Anthropological Association
"[A] winning combination of hard science and interpretative ethnography."--Roy Ellen, American Anthropologis
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...
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