Interdisciplinary research is always a gamble. All too often it results
in a series of discrete articles or monographs with no very
clear connecting theme. When the interdisciplinary research is
applied to a political or geographic area such as Indonesia, the
danger is that the spatial limits will be the only common feature
of the products of the different disciplines. Accordingly, when the
contributions from various disciplines to the study of a particular
area produce genuine synthesis, the result is of unusual interest.
Such a synthesis seems to have emerged from the work done
on Indonesia under the auspices of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Center for International Studies.
Author(s): Clifford Geertz
Publisher: University of California Press
Year: 1963
Language: English
Pages: 204
Tags: Agricultural involution, THE PROCESSES OF ECOLOGICAL CHANGE IN INDONESIA
I: STARTING POINTS, THEORETICAL AND FACTUAL
1. THE ECOLOGICAL APPROACH IN ANTHROPOLOGY
The Limitations of Traditional Approaches 1
Cultural Ecology 6
2. TWO TYPES OF ECOSYSTEM 12
Inner vs. Outer Indonesia 12
Swidden 15
Sawah 28
II: THE CRYSTALLIZATION OF THE PATTERN
3. THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 38
4. THE COLONIAL PERIOD: FOUNDATIONS 47
The Company 47
The Culture System 52
5. THE COLONIAL PERIOD: FLORESCENCE 83
The Corporate Plantation System 83
The Development of Outer Indonesia 103
III: THE OUTCOME
6. COMPARISONS AND PROSPECTS 124
The Present Situation 124
Java and Japan 130
The Outline of the Future 143
BIBLIOGRAPHY 157
INDEX 173
