Political legitimacy in Middle Africa : father, family, food / Michael G. Schatzberg.

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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.

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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