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

E628924

"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.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Statements (44)

Predicate Object
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 NERFINISHED
centralConcept ritual performance
symbolic politics
theatre state NERFINISHED
countryOfSubject Indonesia NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
regionOfFocus Indonesia NERFINISHED
Southeast Asia NERFINISHED
relatedWorkByAuthor Agricultural Involution NERFINISHED
Islam Observed NERFINISHED
The Interpretation of Cultures NERFINISHED
setInPlace Bali NERFINISHED
setInTimePeriod 19th century
theoreticalApproach interpretive anthropology
symbolic anthropology

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

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