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Priests and programmers: technologies of power in the engineered landscape of Bali

TitlePriests and programmers: technologies of power in the engineered landscape of Bali
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsLansing SJ
PublisherPrinceton University Press
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Subak irrigation system, Tihingan village, Klungkung district, Bali (Indonesia)

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The rice paddies and irrigation system of this case is near Tihingan Village, in the, Klungkung district, 45 Km northeast of Denpasar on the Island of Bali, in Indonesia. The original case spans from 1957 to 1959. The data was extracted for a chapter by Geertz (1967) in a book about irrigation systems in South Asia (ed. Coward, 1980) and catalogues an action situation involving 455 rice farmers who are members of an organization called a subak, that regulates irrigation and planting...
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