| 书目名称 | Challenging Authorities | | 副标题 | Ethnographies of Leg | | 编辑 | Arne S. Steinforth,Sabine Klocke-Daffa | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Offers theoretically grounded ethnographies of power and/or authority in selected African settings.Puts local perspectives and transformations in the context of ongoing public debates and thereby chal | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category..Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a particularly broad array of insights into social processes of juxtaposition, opposition, and even outright competition between different postulated authorities. The contributions to the present volume explore the variety of ways in which authority is contested in Southern and Eastern Africa, investigating localized discourses on which institution, what kind of knowledge, or whose expertise is accepted as authoritative, thus highlighting the specificities and pluralities in ‘modern’ societies. This edited volume engages with larger theoretical questions regarding power and authority in the context of (post)colonial st | | 出版日期 | Book 2021 | | 关键词 | Africa; neo-traditional authorities; hidden dimensions of political authority; political authority; soci | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-76926-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-76924-6 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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