LEADER 04627nam 2200781Ia 450 001 9910812186103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0284-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812202847 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418291 035 $a(OCoLC)607374103 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748596 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000967806 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11631744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000967806 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10995214 035 $a(PQKB)11553820 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse26732 035 $a(DE-B1597)449143 035 $a(OCoLC)1013947523 035 $a(OCoLC)1037980929 035 $a(OCoLC)1041974925 035 $a(OCoLC)1046622723 035 $a(OCoLC)1046996259 035 $a(OCoLC)1049610991 035 $a(OCoLC)1054879163 035 $a(OCoLC)979753701 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812202847 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442170 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748596 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682370 035 $a(OCoLC)898755238 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442170 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418291 100 $a20130712d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiberia $ethe violence of democracy /$fMary H. Moran 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (199 p.) 225 1 $aThe ethnography of political violence 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-51088-1 311 $a0-8122-2028-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [165]-178) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction: Liberia, Violence, and Democracy --$tChapter 1. The Case for Indigenous Democracy --$tChapter 2. Contested Histories --$tChapter 3. Civilization and the Liberian Nation --$tChapter 4. The Promise and Terror of Elections --$tChapter 5. The Lock on the Outhouse Door: Discourses of Development --$tChapter 6. The Crisis of Youth and the Promise of the Future --$tChapter 7. Conclusion: A Wedding and a Funeral --$tReferences --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aLiberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization by an American philanthropic organization as a refuge for "Free People of Color" from the United States. Many analysts have attributed the violent upheaval and state collapse Liberia experienced in the 1980's and 1990's to a lack of democratic institutions and long-standing patterns of autocracy, secrecy, and lack of transparency. Liberia: The Violence of Democracy is a response, from an anthropological perspective, to the literature on neopatrimonialism in Africa. Mary H. Moran argues that democracy is not a foreign import into Africa but that essential aspects of what we in the West consider democratic values are part of the indigenous African traditions of legitimacy and political process. In the case of Liberia, these democratic traditions include institutionalized checks and balances operating at the local level that allow for the voices of structural subordinates (women and younger men) to be heard and be effective in making claims. Moran maintains that the violence and state collapse that have beset Liberia and the surrounding region in the past two decades cannot be attributed to ancient tribal hatreds or neopatrimonial leaders who are simply a modern version of traditional chiefs. Rather, democracy and violence are intersecting themes in Liberian history that have manifested themselves in numerous contexts over the years. Moran challenges many assumptions about Africa as a continent and speaks in an impassioned voice about the meanings of democracy and violence within Liberia. 410 0$aEthnography of political violence. 606 $aDemocracy$zLiberia 606 $aPolitical violence$zLiberia 607 $aLiberia$xPolitics and government$y1980- 607 $aLiberia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1999-2003 607 $aLiberia$xHistory$yCivil War, 1989-1996 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPolitical violence 676 $a966.62033 700 $aMoran$b Mary H.$f1957-$01633852 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812186103321 996 $aLiberia$93973817 997 $aUNINA