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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Target entity: book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" Context triple: [Clifford Geertz, knownFor, book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali"]
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Javanese royal courts
Javanese royal courts are traditional centers of political power and high culture in Java, known for their refined arts, court rituals, and preservation of Javanese customs and cosmology.
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Regency government of Karangasem
The Regency government of Karangasem is the local administrative authority responsible for governing and managing public affairs in Karangasem Regency, Bali, Indonesia.
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book "The Sovereign States"
"The Sovereign States" is a political book by James J. Kilpatrick that defends states' rights and critiques federal overreach in the American constitutional system.
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Staat en Land
Staat en Land was a Dutch warship that was captured by the British Royal Navy during the 1797 Battle of Camperdown in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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Indianization of Southeast Asia
Indianization of Southeast Asia refers to the historical process by which Indian religions, political models, languages, and cultural practices spread to and profoundly influenced the societies of Southeast Asia.
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Target entity: book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" Target entity description: "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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A.
Javanese royal courts
Javanese royal courts are traditional centers of political power and high culture in Java, known for their refined arts, court rituals, and preservation of Javanese customs and cosmology.
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B.
Regency government of Karangasem
The Regency government of Karangasem is the local administrative authority responsible for governing and managing public affairs in Karangasem Regency, Bali, Indonesia.
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C.
book "The Sovereign States"
"The Sovereign States" is a political book by James J. Kilpatrick that defends states' rights and critiques federal overreach in the American constitutional system.
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D.
Staat en Land
Staat en Land was a Dutch warship that was captured by the British Royal Navy during the 1797 Battle of Camperdown in the French Revolutionary Wars.
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E.
Indianization of Southeast Asia
Indianization of Southeast Asia refers to the historical process by which Indian religions, political models, languages, and cultural practices spread to and profoundly influenced the societies of Southeast Asia.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
anthropological study
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book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
Southeast Asian studies
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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
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symbolic politics ⓘ theatre state NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfSubject | Indonesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
court ceremonies
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royal rituals ⓘ spectacle and display ⓘ |
| genre |
anthropology
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political anthropology ⓘ |
| hasForm | monograph ⓘ |
| hasFormat |
hardcover
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paperback ⓘ print ⓘ |
| influenced |
interpretive approaches to the state
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studies of ritual and politics ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
scholars
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students of anthropology ⓘ students of political theory ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Bali
NERFINISHED
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Balinese kingship ⓘ political anthropology ⓘ ritual ⓘ |
| notableFor |
its detailed ethnographic description of Balinese court life
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reconceptualizing the state as performance ⓘ |
| partOf | Clifford Geertz's body of work on Indonesia ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1980 ⓘ |
| publisher | Princeton University Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfFocus |
Indonesia
NERFINISHED
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Southeast Asia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedWorkByAuthor |
Agricultural Involution
NERFINISHED
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Islam Observed NERFINISHED ⓘ The Interpretation of Cultures NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPlace | Bali NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInTimePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
| theoreticalApproach |
interpretive anthropology
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symbolic anthropology ⓘ |
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Subject: book "Negara: The Theatre State in Nineteenth-Century Bali" Description of subject: "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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