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1 online resource (xii, 312 pages) : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-302) and index. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Namibia.
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Ethnology. |
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Namibia. |
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Kaokoland (Namibia) -- Politics and government.
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Political anthropology -- Namibia.
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Political anthropology. |
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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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Politics and government. |
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Namibia -- Kaokoland. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Friedman, John T. Imagining the post-apartheid state. New York : Berghahn Books, 2011 9780857450906 (DLC) 2011006254 (OCoLC)681487355 |
| ISBN |
9780857450913 (electronic book) |
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0857450913 (electronic book) |
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9780857450906 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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0857450905 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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