Spirit.: Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium

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Spirit.: Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium
Abstract
This vision of sovereign power hovering above the relations between natural and human elements is relevant beyond genealogical analyses of biopower, pastoral power, and govenmentality. If we go beyond Foucault’s near exclusive context and subject of enquiry, Europe, these relations move to the forefront of social and political life. In Honde, crucial interconnections between polities of chiefly rule and traditional authority, cosmologies of land and the well-being of its inhabitants, and soil are present in a number of contexts. We have seen indications of this previously through Renamo’s appropriation of the traditional field, in Ngungunyane’s problematic relations with rainmaking capacities,
Book Title
Violent Becomings
Series
State Formation, Sociality, and Power in Mozambique
Volume
4
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Date
2016
Pages
90-120
ISBN
978-1-78533-236-4
Short Title
Spirit.
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02/11/2021, 22:39
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Citation
Bertelsen, B. E. (2016). Spirit.: Chiefly Authority, Soil, and Medium. In Violent Becomings (Vol. 4, pp. 90–120). Berghahn Books. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv8bt1ff.14