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Domination and the Arts of Resistance : Hidden Transcripts.

"Play fool, to catch wise."--Proverb of Jamaican slavesConfrontations between the powerless and powerful are laden with deception-the powerless feign deference and the powerful subtly assert their mastery. Peasants, serfs, untouchables, slaves, laborers, and prisoners are not free to speak...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scott, James C.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1. Behind the Official Story""; ""2. Domination, Acting, and Fantasy""; ""3. The Public Transcript as a Respectable Performance""; ""4. False Consciousness or Laying It on Thick?""; ""5. Making Social Space for a Dissident Subculture""; ""6. Voice under Domination: The Arts of Political Disguise""; ""7. The Infrapolitics of Subordinate Groups""; ""8. A Saturnalia of Power: The First Public Declaration of the Hidden Transcript""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""