Imagining the post-apartheid state
Subtitle: an ethnographic account of Namibia
By: John T. Friedman
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780857450906; 9780857450913
Subjects: Politics and government; Ethnology; Political anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imagining states; title: State imaginings; title: Govern-mentality in Kaokoland; title: 'How do you feeling about freedom'; title: The art of being governed; title: Courts, laws, and the administration of justice; title: In the matter of the state v. custom; title: Judicial statements; title: Legal states of imagination and their effect; title: Chiefship and the post-apartheid state; title: Making politics, making history; title: 'Tradition', authority, and the state in northern Kaokoland; title: Towards an ethnography of the (Namibian) state.