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    Title/Author: Challenging authorities/ edited by Arne S. Steinforth, Sabine Klocke-Daffa.
    Reminder of title: ethnographies of legitimacy and power in eastern and southern Africa /
    other author: Steinforth, Arne S.
    Published: Cham :Springer International Publishing : : 2021.,
    Description: xxv, 459 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
    [NT 15003449]: 1. 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 Africa's 20th Century -- 16. Legitimizing the Illegitimate: How Ethnologists Fashioned Namibia.
    Contained By: Springer Nature eBook
    Subject: Power (Social sciences) - Africa, East. -
    Subject: Africa, East - Politics and government. -
    Online resource: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6
    ISBN: 9783030769246
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