Laurel Rose analyzes how traditional ruling elites in Swaziland, as in other parts of Africa, use harmony ideologies to downplay and resolve land disputes. Such disputes could be used by foreign development agents or indigenous new elites as justification for implementing land tenure changes, including a reduction of traditional elites' power based upon land control. Swazi commoners accept the cultural value and legitimacy of most harmony ideologies, but they adopt various strategies when disputing about particular land rights in order to produce more favorable outcomes. This book is unusual in its focus on political rather than economic dimensions of land tenure and disputes. It searches for links between individual concerns with land use rights and national concerns with land policy. It also examines gender and leadership issues associated with land, showing how women and new elites threaten land interests of men and traditional leaders.
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"Perhaps the book's chief merit is the serious attention it pays to the place of women within the Swazi customary legal system...This is a thoughtful book that will be of interest in legal anthropologists and other students of 'customary' law in postcolonial Africa." American Anthropologist
"The core of this book provides a fascinating ethnographic glimpse into the operation of customary courts in the 1980s....this is an absorbing and provocative book, amply demonstrating the need for a new historical anthropology of Swaziland." Jonathan Crush, The International Journal of African Historical Studies
"The core of this book provides a fascinating ethnographic glimpse into the operation of customary courts in the 1980s....this is an absorbing and provocative book, amply demonstrating the need for a new historical anthropology of Swaziland." Jonathan Crush, The International Journal of African Historical Studies
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The Politics of Harmony analyses how traditional ruling elites in Swaziland, as in other parts of Africa, use harmony ideologies to downplay and resolve land disputes. This book is unusual in its focus on political rather than economic dimensions of land tenure disputes.
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Land disputes in Africa arise in association with unique constellations of geographical, historical, political and social conditions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harmony strategies, chiefdom authorities, disputing strategies, deceased homestead head, customary land matters, customary land disputes, dispute containment, newcomers council, disputing opportunities, structural statuses, disputant compliance, customary land law, harmony strategy, male homestead heads, tenured land, disputing forums, harmony ideologies, assertion strategies, land dispute cases, disputing strategy, propagate harmony, customary land tenure system, disputing styles, harmony ideology, land dispute strategies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Authority, Swazi Nation Land, Chiefs Court, Chief's Court, District Commissioner, Swazi Court, Chief Diamini, High Court, Chief Nsibande, South Africa, Chief Masina, Queen Mother, Chief Makhubu, Chief Dlamini, Chief Sikhondze, King Sobhuza, Subordinate Courts, Individual Tenure Farms, Swazi King, Hilda Kuper, Land Boards, Matsapha Industrial Site, Queen Regent, University of Swaziland, Zombodze Kwaluseni New!
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Land disputes in Africa arise in association with unique constellations of geographical, historical, political and social conditions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harmony strategies, chiefdom authorities, disputing strategies, deceased homestead head, customary land matters, customary land disputes, dispute containment, newcomers council, disputing opportunities, structural statuses, disputant compliance, customary land law, harmony strategy, male homestead heads, tenured land, disputing forums, harmony ideologies, assertion strategies, land dispute cases, disputing strategy, propagate harmony, customary land tenure system, disputing styles, harmony ideology, land dispute strategies Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Authority, Swazi Nation Land, Chiefs Court, Chief's Court, District Commissioner, Swazi Court, Chief Diamini, High Court, Chief Nsibande, South Africa, Chief Masina, Queen Mother, Chief Makhubu, Chief Dlamini, Chief Sikhondze, King Sobhuza, Subordinate Courts, Individual Tenure Farms, Swazi King, Hilda Kuper, Land Boards, Matsapha Industrial Site, Queen Regent, University of Swaziland, Zombodze Kwaluseni New!
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