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

✍ Scribed by Barbara Oomen (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 288
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book examines the ongoing resurgence of traditional power structures in South Africa. Oomen assesses the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law and what these changes can teach us about the interrelation between law, politics, and culture in the post-modern world.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-36
The Patchwork Democracy....Pages 37-86
The Power of Definition....Pages 87-122
Sekhukhune....Pages 123-163
‘Walking in the middle of the road’....Pages 164-199
Negotiated Laws, Relational Rights....Pages 200-234
Conclusion Categories have Consequences....Pages 235-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-272

✦ Subjects

African History;African Politics;African Culture;Sociology, general;Political Science

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