TY - BOOK AU - Friedman,John T. TI - Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia SN - 9780857450906 AV - GN657.N35 F75 2014 U1 - 968.8104 23 PY - 2011///] CY - New York, Oxford PB - Berghahn Books KW - Political science KW - Anthropological aspects KW - Namibia KW - Post-apartheid era KW - Recht KW - gnd KW - Tradition KW - Wahrnehmung KW - Ethnologie KW - Rechtsordnung KW - Governance KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General KW - bisacsh KW - Anthropology (General), Sociology, Political and Economic Anthropology N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780857450913 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780857450913 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780857450913/original ER -