Chiefs in South Africa: Law, Power and Culture in the Post-Apartheid Era - Hardcover

Oomen, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0852558813 ISBN 13: 9780852558812

Verlag: James Currey, 2005

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Críticas

There is no doubt that it is a book of major importance which will be widely influential and cited. Using the apparently paradoxical case of the new importance and influence of African traditional authorities in South Africa, she presents an argument for this being a local example of global trends towards localisation, authenticity, culture, pluralism, etc. At the same time she demonstrates clearly that it is more than merely an imposition of fashionable ideas on local realities. Making use of her re-iterated question of who chooses what is customary and authentic, she shows the involvement not only of chiefs themselves, and of government anthropologists, and of ANC politicians, but also of many different interests locally. All share in making the bright potpourri of history .' - Terence Ranger, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford.

Reseña del editor

There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. This work asks: what is the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law in the new South Africa? Why are they changing in this way, and what does this teach us about the interrelation between laws and culture in the post-modern world?

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• Verlag: James Currey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0852558813
• ISBN 13: 9780852558812
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288