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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. The noble rulers of the island were less interested in administering the ...
- Clifford Geertz
- 1980
When one looks panoramically at Indonesia today it seems to form a dateless synopsis of its own past, as when the artifacts from different levels of a long-occupied archaeological site, scattered along a table, summarize at a glance thousands of years of human history.
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...
2. Dez. 2014 · Negara : the theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali : Geertz, Clifford : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. by. Geertz, Clifford. Publication date. 1980. Topics. Bali Island (Indonesia) -- Civilization., Bali Island (Indonesia) -- Politics and government. Publisher. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. Collection.
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 ...
donesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a “theatre state,”gov-erned by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective adminis-tration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate cere-monies and productions the state created were “not means to
1. Sept. 1982 · American Ethnologist. Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali. CLIFFORD GEERTZ. CHARLES F. KEYES. First published: February 1982. https://doi.org/10.1525/ae.1982.9.1.02a00160. Citations: 1. PDF. Tools. Share. No abstract is available for this article. Citing Literature. Volume 9, Issue 1. February 1982. Pages 196-197. Download PDF.
