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Political Oratory and Cartooning : an Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar /
Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar's political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy Ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2012.
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| Colección: | New directions in ethnography.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; List of Figures; Note on Orthography; Acknowledgments; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; Organization of the Study; Note; References; CHAPTER 2: A History of Language and Politics in Madagascar; The First Period of Literacy in Madagascar; Second Period of Literacy; Language Engineering; Kabary as the Model for the Sermon; Expanding the Reach of the Bureaucratic State through Literacy and Class System; Determining Class Status through Literacy; The Death of King Radama and the "Dark Ages" of Literacy.
- Language-Mediated Nationalist Insurgencies during French Colonization, 1895Madagascar's First Republic; Class Struggle, Language, and Political Resistance within the Nationalist Movements of Postcolonial Madagascar; Bureaucratizing the Ideologies and Objects of Nationalism and Class Struggle; 1975-1991: From Malgachization to Socialism to Structural Adjustment Liberalization; Democratic Transitions, Transitions to Democracy; Notes; References; CHAPTER 3: The Structural and Social Organization of Kabary Politika; On the Structure and Style of Kabary Politika.
- The Prototypical Kabary Politika PlanThe arrangement of elements of speech; Beyond the Event: Kabary as Social Contract; Rhetorical strategy to convince; Embodiment and voice; On Hasina Power: Notions of Status and Authority Informing Possibilities of Comportment and Rhetorical Strategy; Power and Sharing the Political Stage with an Exemplary Form; Notes; References; CHAPTER 4: The Structural and Social Organization of Kisarisary Politika (Political Cartooning); Postcolonial History of Political Cartooning in Urban Imerina; Rites, Membership, and Networks in the Cartooning Community.
- Speaking in Their Language: Code Choice, Access, and Cartooning's AudienceHooking the Talons in Deep: The Conditions of Political Critique as Political Action; Kabary and Cartooning Dialogics: Speaking Disorder to Order; Notes; References; CHAPTER 5: Building Publics through Interanimating and Shifting Registers; On Being Gasy: Some Background on Fihavanana; Proverbs as Modes of Authority and as Portable Tropes across Space and Time; Cartooning's Thwarting of Political Opinion and Social Imaginaries of Fihavanana; The Durable Exchange between Proverbs and Scripture.
- Aza matohatra fa mino fotsiny ihany! "Have no fear, just believe!"Action Words and the Code of Modernity and Development; Conclusion; Notes; References; CHAPTER 6: "Stop acting like a slave"; Introduction; Analogical Groupings of "Fashions of Speaking" and Embodiment in Political Cartooning; Background on an Articulated Class and Ethnic Consciousness in Urban Highlands Madagascar; Theories Mapping Fashions of Speaking to Identity; Notes; References; CHAPTER 7: "That's what you think"; To Speak Like "That": Speaking Truth to Power, Power to "Truth."