num_pages: 314
description: Power is eaten whole (Le pouvoir se mange entier). In 1985 the distinguished anthropologist Johannes Fabian, engaged in fieldwork in the Shaba province of Zaire, first encountered this saying about power. Its implications - for the charismatic religious movements Fabian was examining, for the highly charged political atomosphere of Zaire, and for the culture of the Lub peoples - continued to intrigue him, but its meaning remained elusive. On a later visit, he mentioned the saying to a company of popular actors, and triggered an ethnographic brainstorm. They decided it would be just the right topic for their next play.
language: English
title: Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire
titlecomplete: Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations Through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba, Zaire (New Directions in Anthropological Writings)
ratings_count: 3
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: ASA Best Book Prize
publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr