The Politics of Elite Culture: Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Society

by Abner Cohen and Cohen

Book Overview

This title focuses on the dramatic process underlying the development of cultural mystique in the articulation of elite organization. The symbolic beliefs and practices involved act to reconcile, camouflage, or mystify a major contradiction in the development and functioning of elite groups, a contradiction between their universalistic functions and particularistic interests, between their duties to serve wider publics and their simultaneous endeavor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520307194
• ISBN13: 9780520307193
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"