book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali"

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"Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" is an influential anthropological study by Clifford Geertz that interprets Balinese kingship and ritual as a form of symbolic, theatrical politics rather than conventional statecraft.

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instanceOf anthropological study ⓘ
book ⓘ
academicDiscipline Southeast Asian studies ⓘ
anthropology ⓘ
political science ⓘ
argument Balinese kingship is organized as a theatrical, ritual performance rather than conventional bureaucratic statecraft ⓘ
author Clifford Geertz ⓘ
centralConcept ritual performance ⓘ
symbolic politics ⓘ
theatre state ⓘ
countryOfSubject Indonesia ⓘ
focusesOn court ceremonies ⓘ
royal rituals ⓘ
spectacle and display ⓘ
genre anthropology ⓘ
political anthropology ⓘ
hasForm monograph ⓘ
hasFormat hardcover ⓘ
paperback ⓘ
print ⓘ
influenced interpretive approaches to the state ⓘ
studies of ritual and politics ⓘ
intendedAudience scholars ⓘ
students of anthropology ⓘ
students of political theory ⓘ
language English ⓘ
mainSubject Bali ⓘ
Balinese kingship ⓘ
political anthropology ⓘ
ritual ⓘ
notableFor its detailed ethnographic description of Balinese court life ⓘ
reconceptualizing the state as performance ⓘ
partOf Clifford Geertz's body of work on Indonesia ⓘ
publicationYear 1980 ⓘ
publisher Princeton University Press ⓘ
regionOfFocus Indonesia ⓘ
Southeast Asia ⓘ
relatedWorkByAuthor Agricultural Involution ⓘ
Islam Observed ⓘ
The Interpretation of Cultures ⓘ
setInPlace Bali ⓘ
setInTimePeriod 19th century ⓘ
theoreticalApproach interpretive anthropology ⓘ
symbolic anthropology ⓘ

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Clifford Geertz → knownFor → book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" ⓘ