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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813393903321

Autore

Friedman John T

Titolo

Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia / / John T. Friedman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011

ISBN

1-78238-324-7

0-85745-091-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Disciplina

305.80096881

968.8104

Soggetti

Ethnology - Namibia

Political anthropology - Namibia

Kaokoland (Namibia) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, h