Perfect Order

Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali
AuthorJ. Stephen Lansing
GenreNon-fiction
Publication date
2006

Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali is a 2006 book by anthropologist J. Stephen Lansing about Balinese culture. It focuses on the development of Balinese wet-rice agriculture over the last several hundred years, particularly the subak irrigation system. Lansing argues that the subak system came about through a process of self-organization characterized by complex interactions among the politics of local communities, growing conditions, the strict Balinese caste system and interacting religious structures.[1][2][3]

Reception

In 2007, Perfect Order won the Julian Steward Book Award from the Anthropology and Environment section of the American Anthropological Association.[4] It is considered a work of interest to ecologists, archaeologists, and those who study Southeast Asia more generally. However, the book has been more contentious among some anthropologists of Bali, particularly because of Lansing's relative under-use of works in the anthropology of Bali since Clifford Geertz's 1980 book Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali.[5]

References

  1. ^ Heider, Karl G. (2008). "Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali. By J. Stephen Lansing. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006. Xii, 225 $37.95 (cloth)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 67 (2). doi:10.1017/S0021911808001095. JSTOR 20203416. S2CID 162212888.
  2. ^ Johnsen, Scott A. (2009). "Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali". The Australian Journal of Anthropology. 20 (3): 388–390. doi:10.1111/j.1757-6547.2009.00049.x.
  3. ^ Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali[permanent dead link]. Santa Fe Institute & University of Arizona. March 16, 2006.
  4. ^ Lansing, John Stephen (26 March 2006). Perfect Order. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691027272. Retrieved 2019-05-12.
  5. ^ Howe, Leo (2006). "Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (review)". Anthropological Quarterly. 79 (4): 777–782. doi:10.1353/anq.2006.0051. JSTOR 4150936. S2CID 144895972.

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