TY  - CHAP
U1  - Buchbeitrag
A1  - Girke, Felix
A1  - Batum, Dunga Nakuwa
ED  - Steinforth, Arne S.
ED  - Klocke-Daffa, Sabine
T1  - Bittamo
BT  - authority, legitimacy, and duty in Kara, Southern Ethiopia
T2  - Challenging Authorities. Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
N2  - The Ethiopian state increasingly seeks to enlist putative ‘traditional authorities’ to lend legitimacy to policies and interventions in the southwestern peripheries of the country. The underlying assumptions do not accord with the perceptions of the local populations: among the Kara in the South Omo region, legitimacy is predicated upon duty and accountability, and higher degrees of public legitimacy are disconnected from authority and direct command over other people’s conduct. The office of the Kara bitti, the highest spiritual leader, thus proves intractable to such attempts at enlistment and has been little affected by the radical transformation of the Kara’s lives through increasing integration into the Ethiopian state over recent decades. But even as the office has changed little, the lives of those expected to assume the role of bitti has, and the duties of a bitti strongly constrain the office holder and limit their personal ambitions and participation in politics at the local, regional and national level.
KW  - Äthiopien
KW  - Herrschaft
KW  - Macht
KW  - Autorität
KW  - Verantwortung
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-76924-6
SB  - 978-3-030-76924-6
SN  - 978-3-030-76923-9
SB  - 978-3-030-76923-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6_5
DO  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76924-6_5
SP  - 121
EP  - 146
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
CY  - Cham
ER  -