Packet 8: Bonus 18

A thinker analyzed how this country used grandiose ceremonies to display power instead of military might to analyze its “Theatre State” in the book Negara. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country analyzed in the book Peddlers and Princes. A thinker noted the increased labor intensity without any technological growth in this country from higher sawah cultivation in a thesis on this country’s “agricultural involution.”
ANSWER: Indonesia
[10m] This author of Agricultural Involution wrote the essay “Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight” to argue that cultural practices require deep understanding through the use of thick description.
ANSWER: Clifford Geertz (“Gurts”)
[10e] Geertz contrasted this religion in Indonesia and Morocco in a book titled this religion “Observed.” Indonesia has the largest population in the world of adherents to the Sunni tradition of this religion.
ANSWER: Islam
<Social Science - Anthrophology, Aveek Sarkar> | VAULT II Packet 08

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24618.33100%50%33%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13210.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13316.67100%67%0%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24110.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24110.00100%0%0%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30320.00100%67%33%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19220.00100%50%50%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17620.00100%67%33%