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UNINA9910813393903321 |
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Autore |
Friedman John T |
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Titolo |
Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia / / John T. Friedman |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-78238-324-7 |
0-85745-091-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ethnology - Namibia |
Political anthropology - Namibia |
Kaokoland (Namibia) Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Imagining the Post-Apartheid State; CONTENTS; FIGURES; ABBREVIATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1. IMAGINING STATES; Chapter 2. STATE IMAGININGS; PART I. GOVERN-MENTALITY IN KAOKOLAND; Chapter 3. 'HOW DO YOU FEELING ABOUT FREEDOM'; Chapter 4. THE ART OF BEING GOVERNED; PART II. COURTS, LAWS AND THEADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE; Chapter 5. IN THE MATTER OF THE STATE V. CUSTOM; Chapter 6. JUDICIAL STATEMENTS; Chapter 7. LEGAL STATES OF IMAGINATIONAND THEIR EFFECT; PART III. CHIEFSHIP AND THE POST-APARTHEID STATE; Chapter 8. MAKING POLITICS, MAKING HISTORY |
Chapter 9. 'TRADITION', AUTHORITY AND THE STATE IN NORTHERN KAOKOLANDCONCLUSION; Chapter 10. TOWARDS AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (NAMIBIAN) STATE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In northwest Namibia, people's political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a |
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