Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Politics of Ethnicity
- Ist Teil von
- Politics in Congo, 2015, p.232-272
- Ort / Verlag
- Princeton: Princeton University Press
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2015
- Quelle
- Alma/SFX Local Collection
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- No analysis of the emerging political system in the Congo can escape grappling with Qie elusive problem of “tribalism,” or ethnicity. This is a transcendent issue for the Congolese polity, and indeed poses the very question of the polity’s continued existence. For seventy-five years, the numerous African societies preexisting the scramble for Africa had superimposed upon them the “steel grid of colonialism,” to use Coleman’s evocative metaphor.¹ Despite the intensity of this historic experience, the time span involved is less than the lifetime of some Congolese. It was foreseeable that the conflict of loyalty between the new nation,néecolonial
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISBN: 9780691030500, 9780691000053, 0691000050, 0691030502DOI: 10.1515/9781400878574-014Titel-ID: cdi_jstor_books_j_ctt183ppv3_16
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Anthropology, Behavioral sciences, Communities, Cultural identity, Ethnic groups, Ethnic identity, Ethnicity, Ethnology, Government, Group identity, Hegemony, Human geography, Human societies, Metropolitan areas, National identity, Nationalism, Political geography, Political science, Political systems, Psychology, Social attitudes, Social groups, Social organization, Social psychology, Social sciences, Sociology, Solidarity, Towns, Tribalism