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Negara

The Theatre State in 19th Century Bali

Negara( )
Author: Geertz, Clifford
ISBN:978-0-691-00778-6
Publication Date:Jan 1981
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $42.00
Book Description:

Analyzes the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. This book finds that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics.

Book Details
Pages:312
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.967 x 8.853 x 0.858 Inches
Book Weight:0.997 Pounds
Author Biography
Geertz, Clifford (Author)
Clifford Geertz, an American anthropologist, is known for his studies of Islam in Indonesia and Morocco and of the peasant economy of Java. But he is also the leading exponent of an orientation in the social sciences called "interpretation". Social life, according to this view, is organized in terms of symbols whose meaning we must grasp if we are to understand that organization and formulate its principles. Interpretative explanations focus on what institutions, actions, customs, and so on mean to the people involved. What emerges from studies of this kind are not laws of society, and certainly not statistical relationships, but rather interpretations, that is to say, understanding. Geertz taught for 10 years at the University of Chicago and has been the Harold F. Linder professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

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