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

Oomen, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0852558805 ISBN 13: 9780852558805

Casa editrice: James Currey, 2005

Riassunto

There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary law studies highlight the artificial origins of these 'traditional' institutions. This book poses three questions: 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, politics and culture in the post-modern world?

BARBARA OOMEN is Assistant Professor of Law & Development in the University of Amsterdam
North America: Palgrave; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

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Recensione:

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. - Terence Ranger, Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford

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BARBARA OOMEN is Assistant Professor of Law & Development in the University of Amsterdam North America: Palgrave; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press

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• Editore: James Currey
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0852558805
• ISBN 13: 9780852558805
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288