Format:
1 online resource (231 pages)
ISBN:
9781118306154
Series Statement:
New directions in ethnography 4
Content:
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 Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian features of kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in the West Documents the management by United States Democrat campaign advisors of a foreign presidential bid, unprecedented in the post-colonial era.
Content:
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, 1895 -- Madagascar'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 Plan -- The 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 Audience.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781118306062
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118306062
Language:
English
Keywords:
Madagaskar
;
Demokratie
;
Politische Kultur
;
Karikatur
;
Politik
;
Ethnologie
;
Geschichte 2001-2005
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