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[NAME] Logan [Reading] General
I enjoyed Lansing's description of the self-organized water temples and the contrast to the Dutch colonizers (sp?) imposed kingships. My only comment is that I would have enjoyed a more detailed description of some of the religious practices and what the Balinese people thought about them (i.e. the interview clips that Lansing used showed that the religious leaders in the subaks were very aware of the inherent self-organization of the system but were individual farmers?) My comment corresponds to Chapter 11 of Nader's Naked Science, where the fishermen were very aware of nature as chaotic system instead of linear system, with small perturbations (small amounts of fishing, changes in weather patterns, changes in water chemistry from pollution) have unique and interesting effects that are largely unpredictable on a short time scale but in a pattern on a large time scale.
When Knowledge Worlds Collide
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