(DOWNLOAD) "Imagining the Post-Apartheid State" by John T. Friedman * Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Imagining the Post-Apartheid State
- Author : John T. Friedman
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Anthropology,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4203 KB
Description
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.