Graeber / Wengrow 386: "if [Olmec states] were 'states' in any sense at all, then they are probably best defined as seasonal variations of what Clifford Geertz once called 'theatre states,' where organized power was realized only periodically, in fleeting spectacles. Anything we might consider 'statecraft,' from diplomacy to the stockpiling of resources, existed in order to facilitate the rituals, not the other way around."