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African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape / edited by E. Adriaan B. Van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and Rijk van Dijk.

Title
African chieftaincy in a new socio-political landscape / edited by E. Adriaan B. Van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal and Rijk van Dijk.
Publication
Münster : Lit Verlag ; Piscataway, N.J. : Distributed in North America by Transaction Publishers, [1999]

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Additional Authors
  • Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, Emile Adriaan Benvenuto van, 1939-
  • Dijk, Rijk van, 1959-
  • Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden. Afrika-Studiecentrum
Description
iii, 251 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Chiefdoms > Africa
  • Tribal government > Africa
  • Africa > Politics and government
Note
  • "A publication of the African Studies Centre (Leiden, The Netherlands)"--P. facing t.p.
  • "... organisation of a study-day on chieftaincy in Africa, organized by the Africa[n] Studies Centre and held in Leiden in March 1996, which has formed the intellectual basis of this volume"--Acknowledgement.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • The domestication of chieftaincy in Africa : from the imposed to the imagined / Rijk van Dijk & E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal -- Chieftaincy in Africa : three facets of a hybrid role / E. Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal -- The elusive chief : authority and leadership in Surma society (Ethiopia) / Jan Abbink -- Modern local administration and traditional authority in Zaire : duality or unity? : an inquiry in the Kivu / Dirk Beke -- Nkoya royal chiefs and the Kazanga Cultural Association in Western Central Zambia today : resilience, decline or folklorization? / Wim van Binsbergen.
  • Traditional chiefs and modern land tenure law in Niger / Christian Lund & Gerti Hesseling -- One chief, one vote : the revival of traditional authorities in post-apartheid South Africa / Ineke van Kessel & Barbara Oomen -- The Anglophone problem and chieftaincy in Anglophone Cameroon / Piet Konings -- Obscured by colonial stories : an alternative historical outline of Akan-related chieftaincy in Jamaican Maroon societies / Werner Zips.
ISBN
3825835499
OCLC
  • 43029667
  • SCSB-10414237
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library