- Civilization, Politics and government, Indonesian culture, Balinese culture
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Cool, grave, contemplative and earnest.
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Clifford Geertz
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 305
- Publisher
- Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Ediciones Paidos Iberica, Princeton Univ Pr
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, Spanish, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780691007786
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“In 1891 what was to be the last of the dozen or so kings of Mengwi, an inland Balinese palatinate some fifteen kilometers north of the present capital, Den Pasar (see map 1), found his capital besieged by his two most familiar enemies, Tabanan and Badung, allied at last against him.”
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