Mutual Transformations of State and Traditional Authority. The renewed role of chiefs in policing and justice enforcement in Mozambique

This article explores the renewed role of chiefs in policing and justice enforcement from the perspective of every-day practices and modes of organising the relationship between chiefs and local state institutions. Based on ethnographic material from Dombe in Sussundenga District, in Mozambique, it...

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Main Author: Helene Maria Kyed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto Universitário de Lisboa 2009-06-01
Series:Cadernos de Estudos Africanos
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cea/192