Negara：The Theatre State In Nineteenth-Century Bali

作者 Clifford Geertz
出版社 Princeton University Press
出版时间 1981年
ISBN 9780691007786

内容简介

Combininggreatlearning,interpretativeoriginality,analyticalsensitivity,andacharismaticprosestyle,CliffordGeertzhasproducedalastingbodyofworkwithinfluencethroughoutthehumanitiesandsocialsciences,andremainstheforemostanthropologistinAmerica.His1980book"Negara"analyzedthesocialorganizationofBalibeforeitwascolonizedbytheDutchin1906.HereGeertzappliedhiswidelyinfluentialmethodofculturalinterpretationtothemyths,ceremonies,rituals,andsymbolsofaprecolonialstate.Hefoundthatthenineteenth-centuryBalinesestatedefiedeasyconceptualizationbythefamiliarmodelsofpoliticaltheoryandthestandardWesternapproachestounderstandingpolitics.Negarameans"country"or"seatofpoliticalauthority"inIndonesian.InBaliGeertzfoundnegaratobea"theatrestate,"governedbyritualsandsymbolsratherthanbyforce.TheBalinesestatedidnotspecializeintyranny,conquest,oreffectiveadministration.Instead,itemphasizedspectacle.Theelaborateceremoniesandproductionsthestatecreatedwere"notmeanstopoliticalends:theyweretheendsthemselves,theywerewhatthestatewasfor...Powerservedpomp,notpomppower."GeertzarguedmoreforcefullyinNegarathaninanyofhisotherbooksforthefundamentalimportanceofthecultureofpoliticstoasociety.MuchofGeertz'spreviouswork-includinghisworld-famousessayontheBalinesecockfight-canbeseenasleadinguptothefullportraitofthe"poeticsofpower"thatNegarasovividlydepicts.

作者简介

Combininggreatlearning,interpretativeoriginality,analyticalsensitivity,andacharismaticprosestyle,CliffordGeertzhasproducedalastingbodyofworkwithinfluencethroughoutthehumanitiesandsocialsciences,andremainstheforemostanthropologistinAmerica.His1980bookNegaraanalyzedthesocialorganizationofBalibeforeitwascolonizedbytheDutchin1906.HereGeertzappliedhiswidelyinfluentialmethodofculturalinterpretationtothemyths,ceremonies,rituals,andsymbolsofaprecolonialstate.Hefoundthatthenineteenth-centuryBalinesestatedefiedeasyconceptualizationbythefamiliarmodelsofpoliticaltheoryandthestandardWesternapproachestounderstandingpolitics.Negarameans"country"or"seatofpoliticalauthority"inIndonesian.InBaliGeertzfoundnegaratobea"theatrestate,"governedbyritualsandsymbolsratherthanbyforce.TheBalinesestatedidnotspecializeintyranny,conquest,oreffectiveadministration.Instead,itemphasizedspectacle.Theelaborateceremoniesandproductionsthestatecreatedwere"notmeanstopoliticalends:theyweretheendsthemselves,theywerewhatthestatewasfor....Powerservedpomp,notpomppower."GeertzarguedmoreforcefullyinNegarathaninanyofhisotherbooksforthefundamentalimportanceofthecultureofpoliticstoasociety.MuchofGeertz'spreviouswork--includinghisworld-famousessayontheBalinesecockfight--canbeseenasleadinguptothefullportraitofthe"poeticsofpower"thatNegarasovividlydepicts.

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