Imagining the Post-Apartheid State

An Ethnographic Account of Namibia

von John T. Friedman

326 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Anthropologie
• ISBN: 9780857450906
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 06.07.2011
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books