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Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali is a 1980 book written by anthropologist Clifford Geertz. Geertz argues that the pre-colonial Balinese state was not a " hydraulic bureaucracy " nor an oriental despotism , but rather, an organized spectacle.
- Clifford Geertz
- 1980
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2. Dez. 2014 · Negara : the theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali. by. Geertz, Clifford. Publication date. 1980. Topics. Bali Island (Indonesia) -- Civilization., Bali Island (Indonesia) -- Politics and government. Publisher. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press.
Negara means “country” or “seat of political authority” in Indonesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a “theatre state,” governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and ...
11. Mai 2021 · His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the...
He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy con-ceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics. Negara means “country” or “seat of political authority” in In-donesian.
What makes Negara an important essay is that Geertz not only analyses a "pre-colonial state system" of Southeast Asia in an integral way, but also advances a general theory of politics ? that of the theatre state ? as exemplified by 19th-century Bali. Geertz uses a metaphor to clarify this theatre state theory, viz.
