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To Be Seen. Third Encounter Between State and "Customary" in Northern Mozambique

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2277754
AutoresJuan Obarrio (Johns Hopkins University, autor correspondente), Juan M Obarrio
Ano2010
Volume25
Fascículo2
Páginas263-300
Data de publicação2010-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1360.2010.01059.x
OpenAlexW2150332591
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas14
Referências citadas67

This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the "customary" in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieftaincy and the "customary" by the state, supported by international donors, reverses decades of postcolonial ban on indigenous authority and practice. This peculiar case presents a paradigmatic perspective on the complex trajectory of indigeneity in postcolonial Africa, where local autochthonous structures and identities are entangled within a history of colonial violence, political oppression, and recent harsh conflict

Colonialism · Democracy · Ethnography · Indigenous · Oppression · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Sociology · State (computer science · African history and culture studies · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law