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Michael Schatzberg
His major teaching and research interests are in African politics, comparative politics, and political culture. His books include Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food (Indiana University Press, 2001), The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (Indiana University Press, 1988), Politics and Class In Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business and Beer in Lisala (Holmes & Meier, Africana, 1980), and Mobutu or Chaos? The United States and Zaire, 1960-1990 (Foreign Policy Research Institute, 1991). He has also published articles in Politique africaine, Journal of Democracy, Africa, Comparative Politics, Journal of Modern African Studies, Afrika Spectrum and other professional journals. He is working on a research project that deals with the politics, economics, and culture of football (soccer) in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Recent Publications
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Michael Schatzberg. "Ethnography and Causality: Sorcery and Popular Culture in the Congo," in Edward Schatz, ed., Political Ethnography: What Immersion Contributes to the Study of Power (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), 183-200.
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Michael Schatzberg “Soccer, Science, and Sorcery: Causation and African Football,” Afrika Spectrum 41:3 (2006): 351-369.
http://www.giga-hamburg.de/index.php?file=afs_0603.html&folder=publikationen/archiv/af_spectrum
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Michael Schatzberg Political Legitimacy in Middle Africa: Father, Family, Food (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001).
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=1037_1121_1146&products_id=21186
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Michael Schatzberg “La sorcellerie comme mode de causalité politique,” Politique africaine, no. 79 (octobre 2000): 33-47.
http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/pdf/079033.pdf
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Michael Schatzberg The Dialectics of Oppression in Zaire (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1988; paperback edition, 1991).
http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=20285
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Michael Schatzberg Politics and Class in Zaire: Bureaucracy, Business, and Beer in Lisala (New York and London: Africana Publishing Company, 1980).
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Current Courses taught for Fall 2009-2010
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