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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
The values of ‘anarchy’: moral autonomy among Tubu‐speakers in northern Chad
Beteiligte:
Scheele, Judith
Erschienen:
Wiley, 2015
Erschienen in:Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1111/1467-9655.12141
ISSN:
1359-0987;
1467-9655
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<jats:p>The <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">T</jats:styled-content>ubu of northern <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">C</jats:styled-content>had have long been described as ‘anarchic’, in first travellers' accounts as much as in colonial sources and the (scant) academic literature. The term ‘anarchy’, as used throughout descriptions, is of little use analytically, however, as it tends both to conflate an absence of political institutions with a general unpredictability of social relations, and to define political relations by what they are not. This article suggests that a focus on value might provide a more fruitful and less normative way of understanding <jats:styled-content style="fixed-case">T</jats:styled-content>ubu imaginings of the social.</jats:p>