Drawing on a decade of research in the city of Mumbai, Drama of Democracy explores the relationship between political form and political content. Lisa Björkman highlights Mumbaikars’ acumen for navigating and assessing political signs and representations to offer a conceptual toolbox through which contemporary political churnings around the globe might be understood.
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Portions of chapter 1 were originally published as “‘You Can’t Buy a Vote’: Meanings of Money in a Mumbai Election,” American Ethnologist 41, no. 4 (2014): 617–34, https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12101; copyright 2014 by the American Anthropological Association.
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