Day: October 23, 2020

Enormous contribution to the understanding of Indonesian politics and society – Sydney Morning Herald

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Departing for Jakarta, 1963.

While at Yale, he wrote the monograph, Religion, Politics and Economic Behaviour in Java: The Kudus Cigarette Industry, which received a glowing accolade from Clifford Geertz, then the most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States:

“Seeing heaven, or some less attractive cosmos, in a grain of sand is not a trick everyone can accomplish. But in less than a hundred pages Lance Castles has managed to bring an extraordinary number …

Enormous contribution to the understanding of Indonesian politics and society – Brisbane Times

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Departing for Jakarta, 1963.

While at Yale, he wrote the monograph, Religion, Politics and Economic Behaviour in Java: The Kudus Cigarette Industry, which received a glowing accolade from Clifford Geertz, then the most influential cultural anthropologist in the United States:

“Seeing heaven, or some less attractive cosmos, in a grain of sand is not a trick everyone can accomplish. But in less than a hundred pages Lance Castles has managed to bring an extraordinary number …