Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1750-0184|71|3|373-390
ISSN: 0001-9720
Source: Africa: The Journal of the International African Institute, Vol.71, Iss.3, 2001-08, pp. : 373-390
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Abstract
The Nyakyusa were the subject of a classic series of ethnographies. This article suggests that these works took insufficient account of struggles over authority in the colonial period. Consequently they overstated the formalisation of chiefly power and understated the complex relationship between generational tensions and political authority in the pre-colonial period. Following discursive and practical changes in the use of alcohol, the article identifies a shift in the nature of power among the Nyakyusa over the twentieth century and develops the idea that drinking talk, and drinking practice, are central fields for the creation and recreation of the assumptions of power which underpin authority.
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