The culture of power in Southern Africa : essays on state formation and the political imagination / edited by Clifton C. Crais.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crais, Clifton C.

Series:

Social history of Africa 1099-8098

Social history of Africa, 1099-8098

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Power (Social sciences).

History.

Political culture.

Africa, Southern--Politics and government.

Africa, Southern.

Southern Africa.

Politics and government.

Political culture--Africa, Southern--History.

Power (Social sciences)--Africa, Southern--History.

Physical Description:

216 pages : maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, [2003]

Summary:

This collection of essays significantly refines the way we think about state and society in the British Southern Africa of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Contents:

1. Conquest, State Formation, and the Subaltern Imagination in Rural South Africa / Clifton C. Crais 27

2. Coercion and Conversation: African Voices in the Making of Customary Law in Natal / Thomas McClendon 49

3. Negotiating the Practice of the State: Reclamation, Resistance, and "Betterment" in the Zululand Reserves / Aran S. MacKinnon 65

4. Native Administration and the Transition from Segregation to Apartheid / Ivan Evans 91

5. Witchcraft, Chiefs, and the State in the Northern Transvaal, 1900-1930 / Timothy Lane 121

6. Passports and Persons: The Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges in Southern Africa / Deborah Durham 151

7. Tyranny, Parody, and Ethnic Polarity: Ritual Engagements with the State in Northwestern Zimbabwe / Eric Worby 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-212) and index.

ISBN:

0325070849

0325070830

OCLC:

50143307