The Cultivation System and "agricultural Involution"
Author : Robert Edward Elson
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Robert Edward Elson
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 26,44 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520004590
"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 : 45,55 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520341821
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 : J. I. Bakker
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 1979*
Category : Agriculture
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Author : R. van Niel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 14,16 MB
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004486887
Author : Robert Van Niel
Publisher : Brill
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Ulbe Bosma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1107435307
European markets almost exclusively relied on Caribbean sugar produced by slave labor until abolitionist campaigns began around 1800. Thereafter, importing Asian sugar and transferring plantation production to Asia became a serious option for the Western world. In this book, Ulbe Bosma details how the British and Dutch introduced the sugar plantation model in Asia and refashioned it over time. Although initial attempts by British planters in India failed, the Dutch colonial administration was far more successful in Java, where it introduced in 1830 a system of forced cultivation that tied local peasant production to industrial manufacturing. A century later, India adopted the Java model in combination with farmers' cooperatives rather than employing coercive measures. Cooperatives did not prevent industrial sugar production from exploiting small farmers and cane cutters, however, and Bosma finds that much of modern sugar production in Asia resembles the abuses of labor by the old plantation systems of the Caribbean.
Author : Hans Ruthenberg
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Agricultural systems
ISBN :
Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.
Author : Tania Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2005-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1135296537
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 : Arthur van Schaik
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,4 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Agricultural laborers
ISBN : 9789068090215