Class and the customary
The ambiguous legacy of the Indigenato in Mozambique
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6019482 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B O''Laughlin (0000-0001-6006-0281, Instituto de Estudios Sociales, corresponding author), B O'Laughlin |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 99 |
| Issue | 394 |
| Pages | 5-42 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0001-9909 • E-ISSN: 1468-2621 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/afraf/99.394.5 |
| OpenAlex | W2078342782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 73 |
This article looks at the making of the Indigenato, the set of institutions that defined the difference between settler citizen and native subject in colonial Mozambique, and considers its legacy for post-colonial politics. It argues that approaches to the democratization of local governance in rural areas today must recognize that the customary authorities were shaped by a colonial state that was bifurcated in conception but imperfectly so in practice. The Indigenato imposed new oppositions and reconstructed those of gender and ethnicity, but its dualism were continually violated by cross-cutting contradictions of class in the world it interpreted and shaped. An enduring part of the legacy of the Indigenato is a real but ideologically misleading effect: the dualistic opposition of tradition to modernity. This image compromised Frelimo's attempt to construct a unitary socialist society at independence and recurs in contemporary debate in Mozambique over democratization and local governance
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| Unique citing works | 73 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,81 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2025 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 70 |