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The Anthropology of Anger
Civil Society and Democracy in Africa

Célestin Monga

Translated by
Linda L. Fleck and Célestin Monga

Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.

1996

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Table of Contents

Preface

1. The Need for Some Alternative Ideas

   Analytical Matters
   Theoretical and Conceptual Issues
    

2. How Africa Fits into Democratic Theory

   The Polarization of the Democratic Debate on Africa
   Theoretical Framework for Analyzing Political Change
   Conclusion
    

3. Changing Identities: Memory, Culture, and Revolt

   Ethical Stakes Poorly Evaluated
   The Time for Counternarratives and Refutations
    

4. The Emergence of New Patterns of Free Expression

   A Different Understanding of the Banal
   Topography of the Survivalist Imagination
   Aspects of Downright Insubordination
   Problematic Mixes and the Threshold of Effective Disorder
    

5. Democracy and the Politics of the Sacred

   The Ever-Present Quest for Meaning
   The Explosion of the Sacred: Root Causes
   Faith and the Dictatorship of Destiny
   The Politics of God and the Devil
    

6. Civil Society and Public Sphere: The New Stakeholders

   How to Define a Phantom Concept
   Inflation of Politics and the Civic “Deficit”
   Geographic Variables
   Preponderant Role, Mysterious Organization
   Reappropriating Symbolic Goods
   Is Civil Society Civilized?
   How to Deal with the Process of Social Fragmentation?
   Some Conclusions
    

7. A Theory of Disenchantment and Violence: Rwanda and Other Tragedies

   Interpreting Disenchantment
   Anatomy of Political Violence
   Surviving Dreams and Nightmares
   Conclusion
    

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