Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia - Couverture souple

Friedman, John T.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1782383239 ISBN 13 : 9781782383239

Editeur : Berghahn Books, 2013

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John T. Friedman is Associate Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the University College Roosevelt of Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Before training as an anthropologist at Cambridge University, he worked in the field of international development. He has been researching and working in Namibia since 1993.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1782383239
• ISBN 13: 9781782383239
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 324
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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