Focuses on structures of four productive relationships:

1.  Relationship between the traditional system of water temples & the irrigation bureaucracies implanted by the Dutch after their conquest of Bali in the 19th century.

2.  The relationship between the social & technical aspects of terrace management.

3.  The relationship between the representation of power in the rituals of water temples & the royal cult of divine kingship.

4.  The contest of rationalities between water temples & the Balinese state.