Political Oratory and Cartooning

<p>Jackson traces the lively skirmishes between Madagascar’s political cartoonists and politicians whose cartooning and public oratory reveal an ever-shifting barometer of democracy in the island nation. </p> <ul> <li>The first anthropological study of the role of language and rhetoric in reshaping democracy</li> <li>Maps the dynamic relationship between formalized oratory, satire, and political change in Madagascar</li> <li>A fascinating analysis of the extraordinary Ciceronian features of kabary, a style of formal public oratory long abandoned in the West</li> <li>Documents the management by United States Democrat campaign advisors of a foreign presidential bid, unprecedented in the post-colonial era</li> </ul>