Imagining the Post-Apartheid State : An Ethnographic Account of Namibia /
Friedman, John T.
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State : An Ethnographic Account of Namibia / John T. Friedman. - 1 online resource (324 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of 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 THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE -- Chapter 5 In the Matter of The State v. Custom -- Chapter 6 Judicial Statements -- Chapter 7 Legal States of Imagination and 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 Kaokoland -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10 Towards an Ethnography of the (Namibian) State -- Notes -- References -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857450906 9780857450913
10.1515/9780857450913 doi
Political science--Anthropological aspects--Namibia.
Post-apartheid era--Namibia.
Recht
Tradition
Wahrnehmung
Ethnologie
Rechtsordnung
Governance
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Anthropology (General), Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology.
GN657.N35 / F75 2014
968.8104
Imagining the Post-Apartheid State : An Ethnographic Account of Namibia / John T. Friedman. - 1 online resource (324 p.)
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of 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 THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE -- Chapter 5 In the Matter of The State v. Custom -- Chapter 6 Judicial Statements -- Chapter 7 Legal States of Imagination and 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 Kaokoland -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter 10 Towards an Ethnography of the (Namibian) State -- Notes -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780857450906 9780857450913
10.1515/9780857450913 doi
Political science--Anthropological aspects--Namibia.
Post-apartheid era--Namibia.
Recht
Tradition
Wahrnehmung
Ethnologie
Rechtsordnung
Governance
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
Anthropology (General), Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology.
GN657.N35 / F75 2014
968.8104