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The Politics of Custom - Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Custom - Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa (Hardcover)
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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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