Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia / / John T. Friedman
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.80096881 |
| 968.8104 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethnology - Namibia |
| Political anthropology - Namibia | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Kaokoland (Namibia) Politics and government |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Imagining the post-apartheid state |
| ISBN: | 1-80758-774-6 |
| 1-78238-324-7 | |
| 0-85745-091-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910962248503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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