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by Clifford Geertz


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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.

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  • Title Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia
  • Author Clifford Geertz
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Later Printing
  • Pages 196
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Berkeley
  • Date 1969-12-01
  • ISBN 9780520004597 / 0520004590
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.5 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.27 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Asian - General
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Indonesia - Economic conditions, Agriculture - Economic aspects - Indonesia
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94214991
  • Dewey Decimal Code 338.109

About the author

Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 - October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology, and who was considered "for three decades...the single most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States." He served until his death as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
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