Political legitimacy in Middle Africa : father, family, food
In this innovative work, Michael G. Schatzberg reads metaphors found in the popular press as indicators of the way Africans come to understand their political universe. Examining daily newspapers, popular literature, and political and church documents, he finds that widespread and deeply ingrained views of government and its relationship to its citizenry may be understood as a projection of the metaphor of an idealized extended family onto the formal political sphere
Landenoverzichten (vorm)
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations
9780253108654, 9780253339928, 9780253214829, 9781282066120, 0253108659, 0253339928, 0253214823, 1282066129
50174760
Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Metaphor and Matrix; 2. Representations of Power; 3. Parameters of the Political; 4. Alternative Causalities; 5. Matrix I"The Father-Chief: Rights and Responsibilities; 6. Matrix II"Gender and Generation: Women, the Paternal Order, and the Alternation of Power; 7. Democracy and the Logic of Legitimacy; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English