TY  - BOOK
AU  - Comaroff, John L. 
AU  - Comaroff,John L.
AU  - Comaroff,Jean
ED  - UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
TI  - The politics of custom: chiefship, capital, and the state in contemporary Africa 
SN  - 9780226510934
AV  - GN 492.55 .P65 2019
PY  - 2018///
CY  - [Chicago, IL]
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Chiefdoms
KW  - Africa
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Government
KW  - General
KW  - National
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1960-
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Oxford; Available via World Wide Web
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