John Stephen Lansing (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.1.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Leichte Risse.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No creases in spine, little creases on front and back covers at bottom tips, toning along edges of back cover, tight binding, 180 clean and unmarked pages.

Condition: Good. Evil in the Morning of the World - Phenomenological Approaches to a Balinese Community by John Stephen Lansing, 1974.Publisher: University of Michigan, USA.Binding: paperback.Illustrated: yes.Pages: 104 + intro.Description / Condition: Light edge wear/browning to cover plus tears to spine. Label attached to inner cover. Light foxing to pages. Please see pictures for further information.

Maps, xvi + 183pp, index, notes, appendices, prior owner's pencilled note half title page, covers little shelf worn, a very good paperback copy. "For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor by generations of farmers, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape. According to Stephen Lansing, the need for effective cooperation in water management links thousands of farmers together in hierarchies of productive relationships that span entire watersheds. With unusual clarity and style, Lansing describes the network of water temples that once managed the flow of irrigation water in the name of the Goddess of the Crater Lake. Based on a system of power relations so subtle as to be completely overlooked by colonial administrators, the practical role of the temples was unnoticed until the advent of the "Green Revolution" of the 1970s. Lansing shows how the water temples then lost control of cropping patterns, a series of ecological crises developed, and the bureaucratic model of irrigation control was shown to be hopelessly over-simplified. Today the ancient system of water temples is threatened by development plans that assume agriculture to be a purely technical phenomenon. Using the techniques of ecological simulation modeling as well as cultural and historical analysis, Lansing argues that the material and the symbolic form a single complex - a historically evolving system of productive relationships that is the true unit of analysis. The symbolic system of temple rituals is not merely a reflection of utilitarian constraints but also a basic ingredient in the organization of production." (Publisher's description).

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Minor edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed and scratched, some underlining and margin writing in light pencil through the book, former owner's name in red on the front and a small stain in the upper corner as well, some light shelf wear, overall a clean used copy! Gold wrappers with black lettering. Over 500 informative and educational pages! "This report is based on work done by the Survey Research Center of the University of Michigan under a subcontract from The Urban Institute in Washington D.C. The Urban Institute undertook a survey research project related to the evaluation of Model Cities Program under contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The basic aim of the work was to plan a subsequent survey project and to carry out a pilot study. The obligation undertaken by the Survey Research Center was to assist the Urban Institute in various ways in developing plans for the project. The obligations of the Center have been met in part by supplying information and consultation which have been available to the Urban Institute in preparing its reports to HUD. The Center also undertook the actual data collection involved in the pilot study. This report covers the work done by the Center in connection with the execution of the pilot study." ---- from the Preface.

Condition: New. pp. 190.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Spine faded; Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia, No. 6; 104 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dj. Evil in the Morning of the World. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 256pp, printed wrappers. Sixteenth issue of this esoteric underground literary and intellectual review. Includes illustrations by Joe Brainard throughout. Unmarked copy, line of sunning to cover at top edge and a little outer wear and soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st edition. Near Fine. 8vo, 64pp, stapled wrappers. Erratum slip bound in. Scarce underground magazine from 1986 Albany, includes Jackson Mac Low, Gerrit Lansing, Charles Stein, et al. Unmarked copy, light cover soil. Not Signed.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 4to, 32pp, stapled wrappers. The second and final issue of this classic occultic literary magazine edited by Gerrit Lansing. Unmarked copy, light stains to covers and a few leaves at base, soft bend to top right corner. Not Signed.