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001439819 24500 $$aChallenging authorities :$$bethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /$$cArne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa, editors.
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001439819 500__ $$aIncludes index.
001439819 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
001439819 5050_ $$a1. 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 Africas 20th Century -- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.
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001439819 520__ $$aWhen the notion of alternative facts and the alleged dawning of a postfactual world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, factknowledge accepted as truederives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category. Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in modern societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial states (neo)traditional authority, claiming space, conflict and (in)justice, and contestations of knowledge. It offers in-depth critical analyses of ethnographic data that put contemporary African phenomena on equal footing with current controversies in North America, Europe, and other global settings. Arne S. Steinforth is Lecturer at the Department of Anthropology at York University, Toronto, Canada. Previously, he has been Senior Research Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Munster, Germany. His research and prior publications focus on issues of mental disorder and society as well as power, politics, and cosmology in Southern Africa. Sabine Klocke-Daffa is Senior Researcher at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tubingen, Germany. She has been Deputy Professor at various German universities and is a principal investigator of the Tubingen Collaborative Research Center "ResourceCultures", funded by the German Research Foundation. She has done intensive research in Southern Africa focusing on social, political, and religious issues
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001439819 650_0 $$aPower (Social sciences)$$zAfrica, Southern.
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001439819 650_0 $$aAuthority$$xSocial aspects$$zAfrica, Southern.
001439819 650_0 $$aKnowledge, Sociology of.
001439819 650_0 $$aPostcolonialism$$zAfrica, East.
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001439819 650_6 $$aSociologie de la connaissance.
001439819 650_6 $$aPostcolonialisme$$zAfrique australe.
001439819 651_0 $$aAfrica, East$$xPolitics and government.
001439819 651_0 $$aAfrica, Southern$$xPolitics and government.
001439819 651_6 $$aAfrique australe$$xPolitique et gouvernement.
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