Imagining the Post-Apartheid State : : An Ethnographic Account of Namibia / / John T. Friedman.

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• VerfasserIn: Friedman, John T.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857450913; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857450913
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: 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 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.