Dams and Dynasty, and the Colonial Transformation of Balinese Irrigation Management

This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing’s bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement...

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Autor principal: Schulte Nordholt, Henk
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9330-6
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description This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing’s bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement. During the colonial period (1906–1942) the Dutch took over the role of regional irrigation management while they strengthened the autonomy of local irrigation associations.
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spelling pubmed-30559952011-04-05 Dams and Dynasty, and the Colonial Transformation of Balinese Irrigation Management Schulte Nordholt, Henk Hum Ecol Interdiscip J Article This article takes issue with Stephen Lansing’s bottom-up model of Balinese irrigation management. Based on archival research and extensive fieldwork in the former south Balinese kingdom of Mengwi, it is argued that in pre-colonial days large scale irrigation depended largely on dynastic involvement. During the colonial period (1906–1942) the Dutch took over the role of regional irrigation management while they strengthened the autonomy of local irrigation associations. Springer US 2010-04-30 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3055995/ /pubmed/21475723 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9330-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3055995/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475723
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10745-010-9330-6
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