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

Author/creator Friedman, John T.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Descriptionxii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [273]-302) and index.
LCCN 2011006254
ISBN9780857450906 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN0857450905 (hardback : alk. paper)
ISBN9780857450913 (ebook)
ISBN0857450913 (ebook)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks GN657.N35 F75 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold