African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape / edited by E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and Rijk van Dijk.

Other author Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-
Other author Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
Other author Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden
Format Book
Publication InfoMùˆnster : Lit Verlag ; Piscataway, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [1999]
Descriptioniii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents The domestication of chieftaincy in Africa : from the imposed to the imagined / Rijk van Dijk & E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal --Chieftaincy in Africa : three facets of a hybrid role / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal -- The elusive chief : authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) / Jan Abbink -- Modern local administration and traditional authority in Zaire : duality or unity? An inquiry in the Kivu / Dirk Beke --Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in Western Central Zambia today : resilience, decline or folklorization? / Wim van Binsbergen --
Contents Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger / Christian Lund & Gerti Hesseling -- One chief, one vote : the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa / Ineke van Kessel & Barbara Oomen -- The Anglophone problem and chieftaincy in Anglophone Cameroon / Piet Konings -- Obscured by colonial stories : an alternative historical outline of Akan-related chieftaincy in Jamaican Maroon societies / Werner Zips.
General note"A publication of the African Studies Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands)"--P. facing t.p.
General note"... organisation of a study-day on chieftaincy in Africa, organized by the Africa[n] Studies Centre and held in Leiden in March 1996, which has formed the intellectual basis of this volume"--Acknowledgement.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN3825835499

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Joyner General Stacks GN645 .A36 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold