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1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Political culture -- Africa.
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Political culture. |
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Africa. |
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Political socialization -- Africa.
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Political socialization. |
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Legitimacy of governments -- Africa.
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Legitimacy of governments. |
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Families -- Africa.
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Families. |
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Electronic books.
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Landenoverzichten (vorm)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Schatzberg, Michael G. Political legitimacy in Middle Africa. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2001 0253339928 (DLC) 2001002060 (OCoLC)46777375 |
| ISBN |
0253108659 (electronic book) |
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9780253108654 (electronic book) |
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0253339928 (cloth) |
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9780253339928 (cloth) |
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0253214823 (paperback) |
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9780253214829 (paperback) |
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1282066129 |
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9781282066120 |
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