Researching Indonesian Cultural Complexity

Steve, then a third-semester student of physics at Wesleyan University, promptly enrolled and chose Bali, about which he had read a brief review. In March 1971, he started living in Bali.

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J Stephen Lansing

Indonesia has changed the course of life of J Stephen Lansing, 72. As a student of physics, the cultural wealth in Bali interested him and turned him to the study of anthropology that made him a professor who originated the theory of complexity in social sciences.