Imagining the Post-Apartheid State An Ethnographic Account of Namibia
| Author/creator | Friedman, John T. Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn Books, Incorporated |
| Description | 326 p. 09.000 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Summary | Annotation <P>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. <P>John T. Friedman is Associate Professor of Socio-cultural Anthropology at the Roosevelt Academy 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781782383239 |
| ISBN | 1782383239 (Trade Paper) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9781782383239 |
| Stock number | 00097533 |
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