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Author: Clifford Geertz
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Publish Date: 1999-08-01
Features: Clifford Geertz's work "Nirvana: Nineteenth-Century Balinese Theater and State" not only has its own style but also represents anthropological epistemology and cultural criticism with similar characteristics. Geertz's focus is on critiquing the concepts of politics and the state. It analyzes the lives of Balinese people in a beautiful manner, describing the dramatic symbolic forms of traditional politics. Through this description and analysis, Geertz attempts to elucidate a political relationship that is often overlooked by Westerners. For this purpose, he particularly emphasizes the performative and exhibitionistic aspects of politics. In the West, political symbols, ceremonies, national emblems, and religion are often treated as ideology.