Negara (Record no. 66549)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691007786
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 320.95 GEE
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Geertz, Clifford
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Negara
Statement of responsibility, etc / Geertz Clifford
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc NewJersey
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Princeton University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc ,1980
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 295p.
Dimensions ; 28 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America.<br/><br/>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 myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.<br/><br/>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 productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for.... Power served pomp, not pomp power." Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society.<br/><br/>Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Science
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Theatre in Bali
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Anthropology
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Clifford Geertz
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Koha item type Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type Public note
    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 28/10/2025 Donated by Prof. Romila Thapar 0.00   320.95 GEE G6693 28/10/2025 28/10/2025 Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection
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