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 v...
| Основен автор: | Schatzberg, Michael G. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
℗♭2001.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=66584 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Political legitimacy in Middle Africa. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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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. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
0253108659 9780253108654 0253339928 9780253339928 0253214823 9780253214829 1282066129 9781282066120 |