Description: Preliminary Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Metaphor and Matrix Methods Paternal and Familial Metaphors The Moral Matrix of Legitimate Governance Subjacency, Legitimacy, and the "Unthinkable" 2. Representations of Power Power Defined Local Faces of Power Conclusion 3. Parameters of The Political The Elision of Church and State The Elision of State and Civil Society Conclusion 4. Alternative Causalities The Banality of Sorcery The Perils of Explanation in Congo/Zare Other Visions 5. Matrix I-The Father-Chief: Rights and Responsibilities Nurture and Nourishment Punishment and Pardon Corruption and Its Limits 6. Matrix II-Gender and Generation: Women, the Paternal Order, and the Alternation of Power Women and the Paternal Order Women as Counselors Evolving Norms Generational Rotation 7. Democracy and the Logic of Legitimacy Epistemological Issues The Matrix Revisited Legitimacy, Democracy, and "Democratization" Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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