Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia /

Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia / John T. Friedman.

"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...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Friedman, John T.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Subjects:
Ethnology > Namibia.
Political anthropology > Namibia.
Ethnology
Political anthropology
Politics and government
Kaokoland (Namibia) > Politics and government.
Namibia
Namibia > Kaokoland
Table of 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.

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