Political Oratory and Cartooning
An Ethnography of Democratic Process in Madagascar
Published on 12. February 2013
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-118-30606-2 (ISBN)
Description
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
Reviews / Votes
"It is highly recommended to all and Wiley-Blackwell should be persuaded to circulate a reasonably priced paper edition immediately." (American Ethnologist, 16 February 2014)More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
568 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-118-30606-2 (9781118306062)
Schweitzer Classification
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E-Book
01/2013
Wiley-Blackwell
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12/2012
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Person
Jennifer Jackson is Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1994, her research has focused on Madagascar and the US, spanning studies in semiotics, language ideologies and aesthetics, and verbal and visual artistic performance in political practice related to the formation of democracy, civil society and statehood.
Content
List of Figures viii
Note on Orthography x
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiv
1 Introduction: "Look Out! The Sleeping Locusts Awake" 1
2 A History of Language and Politics in Madagascar 18
3 The Structural and Social Organization of Kabary Politika 65
4 The Structural and Social Organization of Kisarisary Politika (Political Cartooning) 92
5 Building Publics through Interanimating and Shifting Registers 117
6 "Stop Acting Like a Slave": The Ideological and Aesthetic Dimensions of Syntax and Register in Political Kabary and Political Cartooning 157
7 "That's What You Think": Arguing Representations of Truth in Language 193
8 Conclusion: The Constraints and Possibilities of Democracy 214
Index 241