Agricultural involution : the process of ecological change in Indonesia / Clifford Geertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geertz, Clifford, author.

Series:

Association of Asian Studies. Monographs and Papers ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Agriculture--Economic aspects--Indonesia.

Agriculture.

Indonesia--Economic conditions.

Indonesia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 1966.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CONTENTS

I: STARTING POINTS, THEORETICAL AND FACTUAL

II: THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE PATTERN

III: THE OUTCOME

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520341821

0520341821

OCLC:

1224279536