A01=Jean-Pascal Daloz
A01=Patrick Chabal
Author_Jean-Pascal Daloz
Author_Patrick Chabal
Category=JHMC
Category=JPA
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- ISBN 9781850658009
- Publication Date: 22 Nov 2005
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Patrick Chabal is Professor of Lusophone African Studies at King's College London. Jean-Pascal Daloz is a senior CNRS Research Fellow at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Bordeaux (CERVL).
