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theatre state: a standalone construct

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Anthropology

a state whose power is enacted and sustained through public ritual and spectacle more than through administrative control.

In anthropology, theatre state refers to a state whose power is enacted and sustained through public ritual and spectacle more than through administrative control. This meaning comes from Geertz (1980) in Negara: The theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali.[1]

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References

Geertz, C. (1980). Negara: The theatre state in nineteenth-century Bali. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691007786

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