Graduation Year
2008
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree
Ph.D.
Degree Granting Department
Anthropology
Major Professor
Kevin Yelvington, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Elizabeth Bird, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Frederick Steier, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Harry Vanden, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Beverly Ward, Ph.D.
Keywords
elites, Gramsci, political economy, ideology, hegemony, action research, advocacy, processual, elections
Abstract
This document is an ethnographic account of one researcher's experience during an election season spent with one candidate. The document considers the history of political anthropology as a subfield of anthropology, the deployment of ideology and hegemony as theoretical concepts, and includes a brief history of Tampa and Hillsborough County politics. The document attempts to make connections between the practical necessities of campaigning, with reference to the processual approach of examining micro-political process, and theoretical issues related to the subject of political anthropology, notably the concepts of ideology, hegemony, and the subject of elites in human social organization.
Scholar Commons Citation
Ford, E.J, "Life on the Campaign Trail: The Political Anthropology of Local Politics" (2008). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/245
