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The politics of custom : chiefship, capital, and the state in contemporary Africa / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [Chicago, IL] : University of Chicago Press, 2018.Description: viii, 361 pagesISBN:
  • 9780226510934
  • 022651103X
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Politics of Custom : Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa.LOC classification:
  • GN 492.55 .P65 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Chiefs, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction -- African Chiefs and the Post-Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority -- Chieftaincy, Land, and the State in Ghana and South Africa -- The Salience of Chiefs in Postapartheid South Africa: Reflections on the Nhlapo Commission -- The Politics of States and Chiefs in Zimbabwe -- Paramount Chiefs, Land, and Local-National Politics in Sierra Leone -- Republic of Kings: Neotraditionalism, Aristocratic Ethos, and Authoritarianism in Burkina Faso -- Corporate Kings and South Africa's Traditional- Industrial Complex -- The Currency of Chieftaincy: Corporate Branding and the Commodification of Political Authority in Ghana -- Fallen Chiefs and Sacrificial Mining in Ghana -- Colonizing Banro: Kingship, Temporality, and Mining of Futures in the Goldfields of South Kivu, DRC -- Third Contact: Invisibility and Recognition of the Customary in Northern Mozambique; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index.
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TAMCAS Library GN 492.55 .P65 2019 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available MASL-11690

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chiefs, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa: An Introduction -- African Chiefs and the Post-Cold War Moment: Millennial Capitalism and the Struggle over Moral Authority -- Chieftaincy, Land, and the State in Ghana and South Africa -- The Salience of Chiefs in Postapartheid South Africa: Reflections on the Nhlapo Commission -- The Politics of States and Chiefs in Zimbabwe -- Paramount Chiefs, Land, and Local-National Politics in Sierra Leone -- Republic of Kings: Neotraditionalism, Aristocratic Ethos, and Authoritarianism in Burkina Faso -- Corporate Kings and South Africa's Traditional- Industrial Complex -- The Currency of Chieftaincy: Corporate Branding and the Commodification of Political Authority in Ghana -- Fallen Chiefs and Sacrificial Mining in Ghana -- Colonizing Banro: Kingship, Temporality, and Mining of Futures in the Goldfields of South Kivu, DRC -- Third Contact: Invisibility and Recognition of the Customary in Northern Mozambique; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Index.

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