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Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power

Indirect Rule in South Africa: Tradition, Modernity, and the Costuming of Political Power

Myers, J. C.

Paperback

Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora, Book 33

African HistoryLiterary CriticismGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1580463622
ISBN13: 9781580463621
Publisher: Univ Of Rochester Pr
Published: Aug 1 2013
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power.

Indirect rule -- the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages.A reexamination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been much more: an ideological strategy designed to win legitimacy for colonial officials. Indirect rule became the basic template from which segregation and apartheid emerged during the twentieth century and set the stage for a post-apartheid debate over African political identity and traditional authority that continues to shape South African politics today.

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