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Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana

The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites

By: Richard P. Werbner

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Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana

The Public Anthropology of Kalanga Elites

By: Richard P. Werbner

Richard Werbner assesses the role of the Kalanga minority in Botswana. Since independence the Kalanga have dominated government and business, yet their strong values and stable social order has allowed them to forge effective alliances with other ethnic groups and to contribute to significant social improvements.

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Indiana University Press

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025321677X

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9780253216779

Beyond the Cultural Turn

New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

By: Richard Biernacki

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Beyond the Cultural Turn

New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

By: Richard Biernacki

A collection of engaging essays that look specifically at the effect of culturalism on history and sociology and propose new directions in the theory and practice of research.

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374

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Univ of California Press

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0520216792

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9780520216792

African Customary Justice

Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics

By: Pnina Werbner,Richard Werbner

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African Customary Justice

Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics

By: Pnina Werbner,Richard Werbner

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the ‘customary’ is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country’s past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state’s present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.

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298

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Routledge

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1000519015

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9781000519013

Anthropology after Gluckman

The Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations

By: Richard Werbner

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Anthropology after Gluckman

The Manchester School, colonial and postcolonial transformations

By: Richard Werbner

Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness, Richard Werbner argues, was driven by creative difference, travelling theories and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The expansion of social anthropology as a dynamic, open discipline became the hallmark of the Manchester School. The remarkable careers and legacies of the Manchester School anthropologists are shown for the first time through inter-linked social biography and intellectual history, to reach broadly across politics, law, ritual, development studies, comparative urbanism, social network analysis and mathematical sociology. Werbner reveals that members of the circle engaged in deep dialogue, enduring friendships, and creative collaboration. The re-discovery of the complexity of their engagement and their lasting impact illuminates the exploration of the frontiers between ethnography, the sociology of knowledge, and the anthropology of colonial to postcolonial change.

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Manchester University Press

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1526138026

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9781526138026

Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy

Apostolic Reformation in Botswana

By: Richard Werbner

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Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy

Apostolic Reformation in Botswana

By: Richard Werbner

This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana’s time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. Richard Werbner focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana’s capital. Werbner shows how charismatic "prophets"—holy hustlers—diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. He also shows how these healers enter into prayer and meditation and take on their patients’ pain and how their ecstatic devotions create an aesthetic in which beauty beckons God. Werbner challenges theoretical assumptions about mimesis and empathy, the power of the word, and personhood. With its accompanying DVD, Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy integrates textual and filmed ethnography and provides a fresh perspective on ritual performance and the cinematic.

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Univ of California Press

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0520949463

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9780520949461

Divination's Grasp

African Encounters with the Almost Said

By: Richard Werbner

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Divination's Grasp

African Encounters with the Almost Said

By: Richard Werbner

“A work of rare depth and profound insight that is destined to become a classic in African Studies and the anthropology of religion.” —Paul Stoller, author of Yaya’s Story: The Quest for Well-Being in the World Richard Werbner takes readers on a journey though contemporary charismatic wisdom divination in southern Africa. Beginning with the silent language of the divinatory lots, Werbner deciphers the everyday, metaphorical, and poetic language that is used to reveal their meaning. Through Werbner’s skillful interpretations of the language of divination, a picture of Tswapong moral imagination is revealed. Concerns about dignity and personal illumination, witchcraft, pollution, the anger of dead ancestors, as well as the nature of life, truth, cosmic harmony, being, and becoming emerge in this charged African setting. “Werbner’s Divination’s Grasp documents a long and distinguished career in the service of anthropology. It will be a touchstone for anthropological studies of divination for years to come.” —American Ethnologist “Richard Werbner’s superb account of moral imagination and the poetics of divination grasps the density of its subject, matching the insights of the diviner with those of the ethnographer. The book takes its place among the very best works of Africanist anthropology as a new classic in the tradition of ethnographic divination and a necessary reminder of live and deep traditions of African wisdom.” —Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Scarborough

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356

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Indiana University Press

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0253018951

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9780253018953

Tears of the Dead

The Social Biography of an African Family

By: Richard P. Werbner

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Tears of the Dead

The Social Biography of an African Family

By: Richard P. Werbner

Illuminating 100 years of family history in Western Zimbabwe, from the colonial period to the present, this social biography is the first account of its kind for southern Africa. At the heart of the book are the life histories of several generations of Kalanga men and women in a single extended family. Together they chronicle the family's endurance and empowerment in the face of large scale eviction, displacement from home, the threat of imposed resettlement, guerilla war, and near starvation in a food blockade.

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International African Library

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074860331X

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9780748603312

Book's by Richard P. Werbner

Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana

Reasonable Radicals and Citizenship in Botswana

Beyond the Cultural Turn

Beyond the Cultural Turn

African Customary Justice

African Customary Justice

Anthropology after Gluckman

Anthropology after Gluckman

Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy

Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy

Divination's Grasp

Divination's Grasp

Tears of the Dead

Tears of the Dead

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