Imagining the post-apartheid state : an ethnographic account of Namibia / John T. Friedman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedman, John T.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Namibia.

Ethnology.

Political anthropology.

Namibia.

Political anthropology--Namibia.

Kaokoland (Namibia)--Politics and government.

Kaokoland (Namibia).

Physical Description:

xii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Summary:

Friedman (socio-cultural anthropology, Utrecht U., The Netherlands) constructs the state of Namibia as an ethnographic object of study. The study is ethnographic, he explains, in its analytical positioning, its interpretive viewpoint, its holism, and its methodology. He covers govern-mentality in Koakoland; courts, laws, and the administration of justice; and chiefship and the post-apartheid state. Among more specific topics are the art of being governed, in the matter of The State v. Custom, and making politics and history. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

Imagining states

State imaginings

Govern-mentality in Kaokoland

'How do you feeling about freedom'

The art of being governed

Courts, laws, and the administration of justice

In the matter of the state v. custom

Judicial statements

Legal states of imagination and their effect

Chiefship and the post-apartheid state

Making politics, making history

'Tradition', authority, and the state in northern Kaokoland

Towards an ethnography of the (Namibian) state.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857450906

0857450905

9780857450913

0857450913

OCLC:

681487355