Politics And Traditional Culture

Author : U. D. Anyanwu
Publisher : Fourth Dimension Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Igbo and the Tradition of Politics written by U. D. Anyanwu and published by Fourth Dimension Publishing Company. This book was released on 1993 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the Centre for Igbo Studies at Abia State University, this study is the first book from the Centre. Aspects of the tradition of politics among the Igbo are examined, including religion, age, economy, history, leadership, structures, institutions, values, sex and gender. The twenty-six papers published here were presented at the First Annual Conference of the Centre, and are arranged in five parts: Theoretical Perspectives covering the meaning, content, style, purpose and values of Igbo political tradition; Political Systems focussing on case studies; Cultural Perspectives including Onomastics, patterns of religious influence, celebration of tradition of politics in Chinua Achebe's novels, gender, traditional communication and the oratorical co-efficient; Economic Perspectives; and the Contemporary Situation.

Author : Ai Janette Jiawen
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814596779
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics And Traditional Culture: The Political Use Of Traditions In Contemporary China written by Ai Janette Jiawen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the political use of China's traditions by the party-state in contemporary China. It argues that the party-state has taken an official Marxist stance in terms of the political use of tradition. Besides looking at the official Marxist stance, this book also looks at critiques of the party-state's use of traditions by the Liberalists and Neo-traditionalists. The underlying political ideologies of these three camps are Marxism, Liberalism and Neo-traditionalism. These three political ideologies have been the most influential in Chinese politics since the Republican Revolution in 1911. The contemporary political use of China's traditions is a competition between Marxism, Liberalism and Neo-traditionalism. This competition is critical to the future of Chinese politics.This book also examines three cases, representing identical ways of the political use of traditions. The three cases are the children's reading-of-the-classics movement, the construction of a Chinese Cultural Symbolic City, the construction and subsequent removal of a statue of Confucius in and from Tiananmen Square, and the revision of the official list of public holidays. The study of the three cases attempts to shed light on the three ways Chinese traditions have been used politically by the party-state. It also attempts to explore the reasons for the party's use of Chinese traditions, the reasons for the party's scepticism with regard to using Chinese traditions, and more importantly, the competition and/or cooperation between Marxists, Liberalists and Neo-traditionalists.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 1580463312
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture written by Toyin Falola and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

Author : Mehran Kamrava
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1857282655
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Politics in the Third World written by Mehran Kamrava and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ka-ming Wu
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252039881
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Chinese Tradition written by Ka-ming Wu and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final destination of the Long March and center of the Chinese Communist Party's red bases, Yan'an acquired mythical status during the Maoist era. Though the city's significance as an emblem of revolutionary heroism has faded, today's Chinese still glorify Yan'an as a sanctuary for ancient cultural traditions. Ka-ming Wu's ethnographic account of contemporary Yan'an documents how people have reworked the revival of three rural practices--paper-cutting, folk storytelling, and spirit cults--within (and beyond) the socialist legacy. Moving beyond dominant views of Yan'an folk culture as a tool of revolution or object of market reform, Wu reveals how cultural traditions become battlegrounds where conflicts among the state, market forces, and intellectuals in search of an authentic China play out. At the same time, she shows these emerging new dynamics in the light of the ways rural residents make sense of rapid social change. Alive with details, Reinventing Chinese Tradition is an in-depth, eye-opening study of an evolving culture and society within contemporary China.

Author : Lucian W. PYE
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674042417
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asian Power and Politics written by Lucian W. PYE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a major new book, Lucian Pye reconceptualizes Asian political development as a product of cultural attitudes about power and authority. He contrasts the great traditions of Confucian East Asia with the Southeast Asian cultures and the South Asian traditions of Hinduism and Islam, and explores the national differences within these larger civilizations. Breaking with modern political theory, Pye believes that power differs profoundly from one culture to another. In Asia the masses of the people are group-oriented and respectful of authority, while their leaders are more concerned with dignity and upholding collective pride than with problem-solving. As culture decides the course of political development, Pye shows how Asian societies, confronted with the task of setting up modern nation-states, respond by fashioning paternalistic forms of power that satisfy their deep psychological craving for security. This new paternalism may appear essentially authoritarian to Western eyes, but Pye maintains that it is a valid response to the people's needs and will ensure community solidarity and strong group loyalties. He predicts that we are certain to see emerging from Asia's accelerating transformation some new version of modern society that may avoid many of the forms of tension common to Western civilization but may also produce a whole new set of problems. This book revitalizes Asian political studies on a plane that comprehends the large differences between Asia and the West and at the same time is sensitive to the subtle variations among the many Asian cultures. Its comparative perspective will provide indispensable insights to anyone who wishes to think more deeply about the modern Asian states.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781011542215
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unpartizan Review; written by Anonymous and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : John R Gibbins
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Political Culture written by John R Gibbins and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1989-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic changes in contemporary European politics associated with the rise of the New Right has created a new political culture which is the subject of this fascinating and informative book. Contemporary Political Culture pioneers the application of the theory of postmodernism to Western political behaviour and political science. Underpinning the book is the observation that fundamental long-term changes in the contours of European political culture explain the rise of the new politics and recent political events. The authors offer a critical analysis of traditional theories, models and accounts of political culture, and -- an evaluation of the two contending contemporary explanatory models, postmodernism and po

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics and Social Change in Latin America written by Howard J. Wiarda and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New edition of a pioneering exploration of Latin American politics and political culture.

Author : Virginia Domingues
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113438873X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Beijing to Port Moresby written by Virginia Domingues and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity. From small to large, young to old, former colony to former colonial power, these six examples do well to represent situated voices and cultural values meted out in a larger "global" space.