Table of Contents

List of Figures xi List of Tables xiii Foreword xv Preface to the 2007 Edition xix Acknowledgments xxxi Introduction: The Gods of the Countryside 1 Chapter One: "Income to Which No Tears Are Attached" 17 Chapter Two: The Powers of Water 37 Chapter Three: The Waters of Power 50 Chapter Four: The Temple of the Crater Lake 73 Chapter Six: Massive Guidance 111 Conclusion: Sociogensis 127 Afterword by Valerio Valeri 134 Appendix A: Plan of the Temple of the Crater lake 145 Appendic B: Technical Report on the Ecological Simulation Model by James N. Kremer 153 Notes 159 Index 181

About the Author

J. Stephen Lansing is a Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and in the departments of Anthropology and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Perfect Order: Recognizing Complexity in Bali (Princeton).

Reviews

"[A]n enjoyable and stimulating book."--Geoffrey Samuel, Journal of Asian Studies "Priests and Programmers is written with admirable clarity and should be of interest ... to anybody working on applied social research."--Michael Hitchcock, Contemporary South Asia "[B]rilliant and delightful... [N]ot only has [Lansing] written a superb book, but he has contributed materially and humanely to the quality of life of the people he has studied. Too few scholars can make this claim."--Bryan Pfaffenberger, Technology and Culture "This is fascinating cultural anthropology, even history of religions."--Edward H. Schroeder, Missiology