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Social history. --- Chiefdoms --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology --- Mda, Mda,

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Post-1994, South Africa's traditional leaders have fought for recognition, and positioned themselves as major players in the South African political landscape. Yet their role in a democracy is contested, with leaders often accused of abusing power, disregarding human rights, expropriating resources and promoting tribalism. Some argue that democracy and traditional leadership are irredeemably opposed and cannot co-exist. Meanwhile, shifts in the political economy of the former bantustans -- the introduction of platinum mining in particular -- have attracted new interests and conflicts to these areas, with chiefs often designated as custodians of community interests. This edited volume explores how chieftancy is practised, experienced and contested in contemporary South Africa. It includes case studies of how those living under the authority of chiefs, in a modern democracy, negotiate or resist this authority in their respective areas. Chapters in this book are organised around three major sites of contest: leadership, land and law.

Democratization --- Local government --- Chiefdoms --- Central-local government relations --- Center-periphery government relations --- Local-central government relations --- Local government-central government relations --- Political science --- Decentralization in government --- Federal government --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- South Africa --- Politics and government

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Chiefdoms --- Political anthropology --- Social status --- Chefferie (Anthropologie) --- Anthropologie politique --- Statut social --- Congresses --- Congrès --- 316.323.2 --- 321.111 --- -Political anthropology --- -Social status --- -Social standing --- Socio-economic status --- Socioeconomic status --- Standing, Social --- Status, Social --- Power (Social sciences) --- Prestige --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Globale samenlevingsvormen: stamorganisatie --- Stammen. Stamorganisatie --(primitieve politieke organisatie) --- Anthropological aspects --- Congresses. --- -Globale samenlevingsvormen: stamorganisatie --- 321.111 Stammen. Stamorganisatie --(primitieve politieke organisatie) --- 316.323.2 Globale samenlevingsvormen: stamorganisatie --- -316.323.2 Globale samenlevingsvormen: stamorganisatie --- Social standing --- Congrès --- -Chieftaincies

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Government --- Political systems --- Internal politics --- Africa --- Chiefdoms --- Chefferie (Anthropologie) --- Congresses. --- Congrès --- Tribal government --- Chefferies --- Afrique noire --- Politique et gouvernement --- #SBIB:328H41 --- Instellingen en beleid: Afrika: comparatief / diverse landen --- Congrès --- Political science --- Tribes --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Political anthropology --- Afrique subsaharienne --- Chiefdoms - Africa - Congresses --- Tribal government - Africa - Congresses

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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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