 | Clifford Geertz - Social Science - 1980 - 316 pages
...of rule, which the negara concept expresses, is more than an accidental metaphor; it is a statement of a controlling political idea- — namely, that...What it is reflective of, the priests declare, is supernatural order, "the timeless Indian world of the gods" upon which men should, in strict proportion... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld, Michel Martin, Michel L. Martin - Social Science - 1988 - 316 pages
...of rule, which the negara concept expresses, is more than an accidental metaphor; it is a statement of a controlling political idea — namely, that by...What it is reflective of, the priests declare, is supernatural order, "the timeless Indian world of the gods upon which men should, in strict proportion... | |
 | Anne J. Cruz, Mary Elizabeth Perry - History - 1992 - 300 pages
...but rather the state, even in its final gasp, was a device for the enactment of mass ritual. . . . The ritual life of the court, and in fact the life...paradigmatic, not merely reflective, of social order. (13) Geertz's vision of the "theatre state" is intentionally formalistic (he does not trouble to explain... | |
 | John Beverley - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 196 pages
...but rather the state, even in its final gasp, was a device for the enactment of mass ritual. . . . The ritual life of the court, and in fact the life...paradigmatic, not merely reflective, of social order. 12 The image is intentionally formalistic (Geertz does not trouble to explain the forms of feudal extraction... | |
 | David Carrasco - History - 2000 - 292 pages
...of the state, tt is the state. ... it is a statement of a controlling political idea — namely thai by the mere act of providing a model, a paragon, a...What it is reflective of. the priests declare, is supernatural order . . . i7 From analyzing the relevant pictorial and written texts and the evidence... | |
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... metaphor; it is a statement of a controlling political idea- — namely, that by the mere act of providing a model, a paragon, a faultless image of civilized existence, the court shapes the world around it into at least a rough approximation of its... 