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The Politics of Elite Culture - Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Elite Culture - Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society (Hardcover)
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This title focuses on the dramatic process underlying the
development of cultural mystique in the articulation of elite
organization. The symbolic beliefs and practices involved act to
reconcile, camouflage, or mystify a major contradiction in the
development and functioning of elite groups, a contradiction
between their universalistic functions and particularistic
interests, between their duties to serve wider publics and their
simultaneous endeavor to promote their own sectional
power. Concentrating on the detailed, experimental study of
one power elite within a modern small-scale nation-state--Sierra
Leone--Cohen analyzes these processes. But his findings are
systematically worked out within a general, cross-cultural
comparative perspective, and he thereby further develops his
earlier formulations about the instrumental functions of culture in
politcal organization. Culture is analyzed in terms of symbolic
forms, symbolic functions, and dramaturgical techniques.
Politico-cultural causation is explored as it operates in chains of
dramatic performances on different levels of social organization.
Familiar, everyday symbolic events are taken out of their ordinary
ideological sequences and, as Brecht would put it, thrown into
crisis by showing their involvement in major power
struggles. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived
program, which commemorates University of California Press's
mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them
voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893,
Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship
accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title
was originally published in 1981.Â
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Imprint: |
University of California Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
First published: |
1981 |
Authors: |
Abner Cohen
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Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
280 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-520-35859-1 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-520-35859-7 |
Barcode: |
9780520358591 |
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