13:30 - 15:00
Objects, Shrines and Secrecy: Performing Political Legitimacy from Below
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Political Legitimacy and 'Customary' Rule in Local African Contexts
Chair/s:
David Maxwell
13:30 - 13:45
Th-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 3-P-001
Who's Capacity? Capacity building and the bureaucratization of the institution of chieftaincy
Henry Brefo
University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, United Kingdom
13:45 - 14:00
Th-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 3-P-002
The Colonial Chieftaincy and the Question of Legitimacy in Mayombe (Lower Congo, DRC)
Hein Vanhee
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
14:00 - 14:15
Th-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 3-P-003
Ritual Performance and Political Legitimacy: A Chieftaincy Conflict in the Western Region of Ghana.
Benedetta Lepore
Italian Ethnological Mission to Ghana (IEMG), Sapienza, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
14:15 - 14:30
Th-A35 Political Legitimacy and Local African Contexts 3-P-004
Spiritual healing and politics: the case of mani in a longue durée and cross-border perspective (South Sudan, DRCongo, 1880-today)
Naomi Pendle1, Vicky VanBockhaven2
1London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom, 2Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium