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
| Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | 17.33 | 100% | 47% | 27% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I have no buzzer and I must neg | They fuck you up your buzz and neg | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Jeopardy Rejected Ibean Batutu | Ted Offensive | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 | E |
| Mountain Dew is Better | Armand duplantis fan club | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| Not Just Biking | Hoya gonna stop the Fighting Irish? | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
| The Young Jits | An even worse idea | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 | ME |
| They'll Just Let Anyone Edit Chicago Open These Days | Virginia Tech | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | HME |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Match | Heard | PPB | E % | M % | H % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VAULT II at Georgia Tech | 2026-01-24 | ✓ | 6 | 18.33 | 100% | 50% | 33% |
| Triangle Cup | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| VAULT II at McGill | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at UCSB | 2026-03-13 | ✓ | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| VAULT II Northern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II Southern UK | 2026-04-24 | ✓ | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| VAULT II at Harvard | 2026-04-30 | ✓ | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| VAULT II at MINT | 2026-06-19 | ✓ | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| VAULT II Stanford Online | 2026-07-17 | ✓ | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |