J. Stephen Lansing, "Priests and Programmers" (1991, 2007): "But if we accept the argument that productive systems embody a cultural or symbolic logic, new questions appear when we move from theory to ethnography. The problem is a variant of the 'excess of meaning' argument, which has often surfaced in cultural analysis. Simply put, the question is the relationship between symbolic systems, such as the agricultural rites of the water temples, and productive relationships. What is the match between practice and rites? ... The problem is magnified when we confront the true complexity of both the ritual and productive systems, for the productive system is not a single field but a vast engineered landscape of rice terraces and irrigation systems, of markets and market shrines, irrigation tunnel builders, and threshing societies. And the symbolic system referents include not only the fields and flowers but more immaterial or transcendental concepts."
The Raku Study Group August 25, 2024 1pm in California, 8pm in the UK An informal meeting: drop by when you can, show us what you've got, ask and answer questions, or just listen and lurk. Perl and programming in general are fair game, along with Raku, Zoom meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85455359138?pwd=DkRh53bJaVIhZLT4SjIXwybVZh4eQm.1 Passcode: 4RakuRoll RSVPs are useful, though not needed: https://www.meetup.com/san-francisco-perl/events/303015311/
