03191nam 2200649 a 450 991081339390332120240514022746.01-78238-324-70-85745-091-310.1515/9780857450913(CKB)2670000000107620(EBL)744418(OCoLC)746746624(SSID)ssj0000537811(PQKBManifestationID)12179336(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000537811(PQKBWorkID)10557316(PQKB)10655665(MiAaPQ)EBC744418(Au-PeEL)EBL744418(CaPaEBR)ebr10490227(CaONFJC)MIL536856(DE-B1597)636210(DE-B1597)9780857450913(EXLCZ)99267000000010762020110210d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrImagining the post-apartheid state an ethnographic account of Namibia /John T. Friedman1st ed.New York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (324 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-78238-323-9 0-85745-090-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 HISTORYChapter 9. 'TRADITION', AUTHORITY AND THE STATE IN NORTHERN KAOKOLANDCONCLUSION; Chapter 10. TOWARDS AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE (NAMIBIAN) STATE; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEX 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, hEthnologyNamibiaPolitical anthropologyNamibiaKaokoland (Namibia)Politics and governmentEthnologyPolitical anthropology305.80096881968.8104Friedman John T197969MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910813393903321Imagining the post-apartheid state3966736UNINA