His work in the 1960s lead to the papers Peddlers and Princes and Agricultural Involution, which dealt with the development of Indonesia, a topic revisited in Islam Observed.  
This man described a "theatre state," a situation when power serving pomp and not the other way around, in his Negara.  Using the villages of Sefrou and Pare as focal points for his analysis, he argued that anthpology must grapple with how modernity transforms symbolic systems in After the Fact.  His work in the 1960s lead to the papers Peddlers and Princes and Agricultural Involution, which dealt with the development of Indonesia, a topic revisited in Islam Observed.  His most famous work begins with the analysis of the meaning of a wink, and goes on to describe man as suspended in "webs of significance".  A promoter of "thick description", FTP, name this American anthropologist, whose essay "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight" can be found in his Interpretation of Cultures.
This man described a "theatre state," a situation when power serving pomp and not the other way around, in his Negara.  
Clifford Geertz