CLIFFORD GEERTZ, 1926–2006: MEANING, METHOD AND INDONESIAN ECONOMIC HISTORY

Autor:	R. E. Elson
Rok vydání:	2007
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Stimulus (economics) Development Social mobility language.human_language Indonesian Rural poverty Economic history language Involution (philosophy) Sociology Meaning (existential) Relation (history of concept) Order (virtue)
Zdroj:	Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies. 43:251-264
ISSN:	1472-7234 0007-4918
DOI:	10.1080/00074910701408081
Popis:	Clifford Geertz was best known for his pioneering excursions into symbolic or in terpretive anthropology, especially in relation to Indonesia. Less well recognised are his stimulating explorations of the modern economic history of Indonesia. His thinking on the interplay of economics and culture was most fully and vigorously expounded in Agricultural Involution. That book deployed a succinctly packaged past in order to solve a pressing contemporary puzzle, Java's enduring rural poverty and apparent social immobility. Initially greeted with acclaim, later and ironically the book stimulated the deep and multi-layered research that in fact led to the eventual rejection of Geertz's central contentions. But the veracity or otherwise of Geertz's inventive characterisation of Indonesian economic development now seems irrelevant; what is profoundly important is the extraordinary stimulus he gave to a generation of scholars to explore Indonesia's modern economic history with a depth and intensity previous...
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