Assertion: political ritual | /r/CapableOf | construct power
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value: according to anthropologist clifford geertz
type: OTHER
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text: According to anthropologist Clifford Geertz, political rituals actually construct power; that is, in his analysis of the Balinese state, he argued that rituals are not an ornament of political power, but that the power of political actors depends upon their ability to create rituals and the cosmic framework within which the social hierarchy headed by the king is perceived as natural and sacred.