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Challenging authoritiesethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Challenging authoritiesedited by Arne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa.
Reminder of title:	ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /
other author:	Steinforth, Arne S.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	xxv, 459 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Power (Social sciences)Africa, East.
Subject:	Africa, EastPolitics and government.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6
ISBN:	9783030769246$q(electronic bk.)

Challenging authoritiesethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /
Challenging authoritiesethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /[electronic resource] :edited by Arne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xxv, 459 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

1. Introduction: Investigating Authority and Its Legitimization in Contemporary Africa -- Part 1. Power and the (Post)Colonial State. 2. Whose State? Whose Nation? Representations of the History of the Arab Slave Trade and Nation-Building in Tanzania -- 3. Between Ethnicity and Medicine: Reinventing Legitimacy in Chokwe and Sukuma Chieftaincies -- Part 2. Contested Authorities and State Power -- 4. By What Authority? Cosmology, Legitimacy, and the Sources of Power in Malawi -- 5. Bittamo: The Duties of Authority in Kara, Southern Ethiopia -- 6. In Search of Democracy: gadaa as a Political Idea - Or, the Legitimacy of Traditional Authority in Times of Turmoil and Unease -- 7. Contested Authorities, External Experts and the Quest for Social Justice: Negotiating Basic Income Grants in an African Setting -- 8. Challenging Neotraditional Authority in Namibia -- Part 3. Power and Authority over Space -- 9. Changes in Ethnicity and Land Rights among the !Xun of North-central Namibia -- 10. San Traditional Authorities, Communal Conservancies, Conflicts, and Leadership in Namibia -- 11. Sacred Spaces, Legal Claims: Competing Claims for Legitimate Knowledge and Authority over the Use of Land in Nharira Hills, Zimbabwe -- Part 4. Conflict, (In)Justice, and Plural Legitimacies -- 12. Magic Momentum: Negotiating Authority in the Bongolava Region, Madagascar -- 13. Ungoverned Spaces and Informalisation of Violence: The Case of Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) in Baragoi -- 14. Who Calls the Tune? Submission, Evasion and Contesting Authorities in Ethiopian Refugee Camps -- Part 5. Secret Authority and the State -- 15. Secrecy and Visibility: Challenging Verwoerdism in South Africa's 20th Century -- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.

ISBN: 9783030769246$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

907624
Power (Social sciences)
--Africa, East.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

525770
Africa, East
--Politics and government.

LC Class. No.: HN780.Z9

Dewey Class. No.: 320.9676

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