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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.
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.
11 de may. de 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...
1 de ene. de 1981 · Geertz traces the sociological and historical interplay of state formation and dissolution and power and status distribution in 14th to 19th century Bali-an island symbolically caught in a parallel tug of nature between the tranquil Java sea to the north and the treacherous Indian Ocean to the south.
2 de dic. de 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.
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. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a “theatre state,”gov-
