Culture Troubles : Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning

Name: Culture Troubles
Brand: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
SKU: 9781850658009
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ISBN: 9781850658009

by Jean-Pascal Daloz , Patrick Chabal

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1850658005

ISBN-13 9781850658009

Publisher C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Imprint C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Nov 22nd, 2005

Product Classification: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology Political science & theory Political science and theory

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A systematic re-evaluation of the role of culture in political analysis. The authors' contentions are that it is unwise to compare different societies without taking into account culture(s); that a cultural approach contributes meaning to political comparison; and that conceptual frameworks can be based on a theoretically eclectic approach.

Chabal and Daloz's argument is one based on an analysis of culture understood as a system of meanings rather than as values. Hence, the authors offer a methodology that grounds political analysis in the interpretation of what 'makes sense' to the people concerned. Their approach, which resists the tyranny of particularisms but instead proposes a different 'scientific' method, draws upon a wide range of political, sociological and anthropological sources. The authors illustrate the analytical sharpness of this method with a comparative study of the state and political representation in three very different settings: France, Nigeria and Sweden.

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