Chiefs in South Africa : law, power & culture in the post-apartheid era
by
 
Oomen, Barbara.

Title
Chiefs in South Africa : law, power & culture in the post-apartheid era

Author
Oomen, Barbara.

ISBN
9780852558812
 
9781403970855
 
9780852558805
 
9781869140670

Personal Author
Oomen, Barbara.

Publication Information
Oxford : James Currey ; New York, NY : Palgrave, 2005.

Physical Description
xi, 272 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents
Introduction : reawakenings. The dawning of the dawn ; A new world ; Past nightmares ; Theoretical challenges ; An approach to the study ; Outline of the study -- The patchwork democracy : boundary politics after 1994. The legacy ; Imagining the future : constitutional negotiations ; Towards a traditional authorities act ; 'Two bulls in a kraal?' : the local government discussion ; Keeping control over land ; The customary law debates -- The power of definition : struggling for the soul of custom. Who did the defining? The actors ; Why could they? Signs of the times ; The assumptions -- Sekhukhune : the institutional landscape. From Bopedi to Lebowa ; Traditional leadership and its spheres ; The institutional landscape ; Asserting control -- 'Walking in the middle of the road' : people's perspectives on the legitimacy of traditional leadership. Chieftaincy and legitimacy ; How do people support chiefs? ; Support at the community level ; Support dependent on chiefly characteristics ; Support at the individual level ; Why do people support traditional leaders? -- Negotiated laws, relational rights : power, authority & the creation of local law. Living law and legal culture in Sekhukhune ; Stories of succession ; The commission on the tribal constitution -- Categories have consequences : the constitutive effects of cultural rights legislation. Definitions and struggles ; The constitutive effects of cultural rights legislation ; Law, power and culture ; Alternatives.

Abstract
The author questions what the relationship is between traditional authority, custom and culture and customary law in the new South Africa, why the relationship is changing and what it teaches us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world.

Subject Term
Chiefdoms -- South Africa.
 
Tribal government -- South Africa.
 
Chiefdoms. (OCoLC)fst00854199
 
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
 
Tribal government. (OCoLC)fst01156472
 
Stamhoofden.
 
Häuptling.

Geographic Term
South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1994-
 
South Africa. (OCoLC)fst01204616
 
Südafrika

Electronic Access
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007273880-t.html
 
Contributor biographical information http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007273880-b.html
 
Publisher description http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0713/2007273880-d.html


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