The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa - Tapa blanda

 
9780226510934: The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
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ISBN 10: 022651093X ISBN 13: 9780226510934
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2018

Sinopsis

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are instead a rising force, often wielding substantial power and legitimacy despite major changes in the workings of the global political economy in the post–Cold War era—changes in which they are themselves deeply implicated.

This pathbreaking volume, edited by anthropologists John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, explores the reasons behind the increasingly assertive politics of custom in many corners of Africa. Chiefs come in countless guises—from university professors through cosmopolitan businessmen to subsistence farmers–but, whatever else they do, they are a critical key to understanding the tenacious hold that “traditional” authority enjoys in the late modern world. Together the contributors explore this counterintuitive chapter in Africa’s history and, in so doing, place it within the broader world-making processes of the twenty-first century.

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John L. Comaroff is the Hugh K. Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University. He is also an Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation. Jean Comaroff is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of African and African American Studies and of Anthropology and an Oppenheimer Fellow in African Studies at Harvard University.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2018
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
022651093X
ISBN 13 
9780226510934
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
370
Editor
Comaroff John L., Comaroff Jean
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