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- Publisher
- Brill
- Copyright
- © 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
- ISSN
- 1569-1322
- eISSN
- 1569-1330
- DOI
- 10.1163/156913307X208177
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Abstract
Book Reviews / Comparative Sociology 6 (2007) 232–245 241 Chabal, Patrick and Jean-Pascal Daloz, 2006, Culture Troubles. Politics and the Interpretation of Meaning , London: Hurst & Company, pp. 395, ISBN 0226100405 (Hb), $70.00, ISBN 1850658005 (Pb), 29.00. In their latest academic endeavor, Chabal and Daloz attempt to offer a new perspective on the implications of a cultural reading in the domain of political sciences. Th eir stated aim is to cast more light on the importance of culture in shaping the political realities across the globe, and to validate the importance of such an enterprise in the field. Departing from the more established interpretations of culture in political sciences, Chabal and Daloz translate the body of knowledge developed by Clifford Geertz and by the French school of “histoire des mentalités” into their field, and aim to develop a theory of eclecticism able to elucidate the importance of the cultural constructions on the world’s polities. As such, theoretical eclecti- cism is deemed to solve the ideational impasse encountered by political scientists whenever addressing the issue of culture in a political setting. Th e new theoretical construct provides a culturally sensitive account of the comparative study of politics. In
Journal
Comparative Sociology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007