By Clifford Geertz
In a heavily saw research of 2 Indonesian cities, Clifford Geertz analyzes the method of financial swap when it comes to humans and behaviour styles instead of source of revenue and construction. one of many infrequent empirical reviews of the earliest phases of the transition to fashionable fiscal progress, "Peddlers and Princes" bargains very important proof and generalizations for the economist, the sociologist, and the South East Asia professional.
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Most of the manufactured goods sold in the market are produced outside the Modjokuto area, often outside Indonesia. The argument here is simply that, with the partial exception of the more differentiated manufacturing enterprises we shall discuss below, what processing and manufacturing activities do take place in the local area are structurally part and parcel of the pasar pattern. Economic Development in Modjokuto • 33 ary accounting makes it difficult for either the buyer or the seller to calculate very exactly what, in any particular case, a "reasonable" price is.
The main result of this social segregation has been that the pasar has tended to form a fairly self-contained cultural universe for its participants, while at the same time the status of the trader in the wider society has been ambiguous at best, pariah-like at worst. One cannot fully understand the bazaar-trader, and so the bazaar economy in general, unless one realizes that trading in and of itself, trading for trading's sake is one of the primary goals of his life. The trader sees trade as a peasant sees agriculture, or as a civil servant sees administration- as the expression of his essential self.
In the absence, now or in the past, of any capital-intensive agricultural activity of the sugar-mill and plantation sort, monetization, proletarianization, and integration into a world-wide economy have all gone rather less far, in both town and village, than they have in the Modjokuto area. On the political level a similar contrast appears. Though there are two major political parties of importance in Tabanan, as there are in Bali generally, the Nationalist (Partai Nasional Indonesia, PNI) and the Socialist (Partai Sosialis Indonesia, PSI), they do not have around them the whole structure of auxiliary associations that accompanies the parties in Modjokuto, nor are they nearly so systematically organized as in the Javanese town.