Pseudocapitalism and the overpoliticized state : reconciling politics and anthropology in Zaire
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Bibliographic Information
Pseudocapitalism and the overpoliticized state : reconciling politics and anthropology in Zaire
（The making of modern Africa）
Avebury, c1994
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Note
Bibliography: p. 251-260
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Offers a critique and an alternative view of the theory of the African state. Using Zaire as a representative of African and Third World countries, the author argues that despite formal "democratic" trappings, competitive rule does not differ fundamentally from authoritarian rule.
Table of Contents
- The problem, the theory and the concepts
- paradigms of the state and society in the Third World - a critique
- precolonial societies in Central Africa
- mode of production and the dynamism of precolonial societies
- explaining pseudocapitalism
- pseudocapitalism and overpoliticization - competitive rule
- pseudocapitalism and overpoliticization - authoritarian rule
- pseudocapitalism and the overpoliticized state - theoretical reprise.
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