Chiefs in South Africa : law, power & culture in the post-apartheid era
This book examines the ongoing resurgence of traditional power structures in South Africa. Oomen assesses the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law and what these changes can teach us about the interrelation between law, politics, and culture in the post-modern world.
Print Book, English, 2005
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg, 2005
xi, 272 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
9781869140670, 9780852558812, 9780852558805, 9781403970855, 1869140672, 0852558813, 0852558805, 1403970858
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Introduction: reawakenings - The patchwork democracy: boundary politics after 1994 - The power of definition: struggling for the soul of custom - Sekhukhune: the institutional landscape - 'Walking in the middle of the road': people's perspectives on the legitimacy of traditional leadership - Negotiated laws, relational rights... power, authority, and the creation of local law - Conclusion: categories have consequences, the constitutive effects of cultural rights legislation - Select Bibliography.
Co-publisher: Oxford : James Currey, and, New York : Palgrave