| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Imagining states -- State imaginings -- Govern-mentality in Kaokoland -- 'How do you feeling about freedom' -- The art of being governed -- Courts, laws, and the administration of justice -- In the matter of the state v. custom -- Judicial statements -- Legal states of imagination and their effect -- Chiefship and the post-apartheid state -- Making politics, making history -- 'Tradition', authority, and the state in northern Kaokoland -- Towards an ethnography of the (Namibian) state |
| Summary |
"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, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes."--Publisher site |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-302) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Namibia.
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Political anthropology -- Namibia
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
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Ethnology
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Political anthropology
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Politics and government
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Recht
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Tradition
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Wahrnehmung
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Ethnologie
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Rechtsordnung
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Governance
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| SUBJECT |
Kaokoland (Namibia) -- Politics and government
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| Subject |
Namibia
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Namibia -- Kaokoland
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011006254 |
| ISBN |
9780857450913 |
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0857450913 |
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