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Book Title
Democracy: Anthropological Approaches
Publication Date
2008-12-10
Pages
280
ISBN
9781934691076
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Publisher
School for Advanced Research Press/Sar Press
ISBN-10
1934691070
ISBN-13
9781934691076
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70957147

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Democracy : Anthropological Approaches
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Author
Julia Paley
Subject Area
Political Science, Social Science
Series
School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

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Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2008-024800
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
321.8
Synopsis
In recent decades, powerful institutions have packaged Western democracy for export around the globe. Although Western democracy is grounded in specific historical experiences and cultural assumptions, advocates have generally taken its normative status for granted. So too have most academics. Yet if democracy is broadly understood as government by "the people," it must necessarily differ along with "the people" in question. Just what "the will of the people" is and how it might be realized become questions of pressing importance. Rather than advance alternative definitions of democracy, celebrate alternative democracies, or posit alternatives to democracy, the contributors to this volume focus on the way that specific definitions of democracy are advanced as normative and others eclipsed, and how certain claims to represent "the will of the people" gain currency and others are silenced. While previous scholars of democracy have proposed one definitive model after another, the authors in this work suggest that democracy is by nature an open ended set of questions about the workings of power--questions best engaged through the dialogical processes of fieldwork and ethnographic writing., While previous scholars of democracy have proposed one definitive model after another, the authors in this work suggest that democracy is by nature an open ended set of questions about the workings of power--questions best engaged through the dialogical processes of fieldwork and ethnographic writing.
LC Classification Number
JC423.D439842

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