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Agricultural Involution: The Processes of Ecological Change in Indonesia

By Clifford Geertz
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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 examin...

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