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Etnográfica
versão impressa ISSN 0873-6561
Etnográfica v.12 n.2 Lisboa nov. 2008
Relato etnográfico de un encuentro real: visita al Khuta mafwe, región de Caprivi, Estado de Namibia
Ester Massó Guijarro *
Se presenta en el artículo una narración etnográfica clásica a través de la descripción densa, en la que la autora pretende abundar, a través de la inevitable subjetividad de la experiencia de campo y sirviéndose de ella como riqueza mayor frente a una imposible neutralidad , en los pormenores antropológicos de una visita a un Khuta autoridad tradicional mafwe en la región capriviana de Namibia, fronteriza con Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana y Angola. La narración etnográfica es empleada como pretexto para ilustrar algunas de las claves de comprensión fundamentales sobre las relaciones actuales entre las autoridades tradicionales mafwe autóctonas y el gobierno namibio, a raíz del intento de secesión armada en agosto de 1999 que produjo el exilio político del anterior jefe mafwe, partidario de la escisión, frente al actual, connivente con el gobierno. A través de la subjetividad etnográfica se pretende una aproximación ajustada, humana y compleja a una realidad social densa, cúmulo a su vez de subjetividades varias, contingencias históricas e ineludibles arbitrios vitales.
Palabras-Clave: narración etnográfica, Caprivi (Namibia), descripción densa, autoridad tradicional mafwe, secesión armada.
Ethnographic narration of a royal meeting: a visit to the Mafwe Khuta, Caprivi region, Namibian State
This article presents a classic ethnographic narrative through thick description. The anthropological events of a visit to a Khuta traditional authority mafwe in the Caprivian region of Namibia (bordering Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Angola), are analysed, through the inevitable subjectivity of fieldwork (considering it as richness, in opposite at an impossible neutrality). Ethnographical narrative is used as a pretext to illuminate some of the crucial comprehension keys on the current relations between autochthonous traditional authorities and the Namibian government, in the wake of the secession revolt on August 1999, which involved the political exile of the former mafwe chief splinter supporter opposite the current one government follower. Through ethnographical subjectivity, it is intended a human accurate complex approach to a thick social reality, full in its turn of various subjectivities, historical contingencies and inescapable vital arbitrariness.
Keywords: ethnographic narration, Caprivi (Namibia), thick description, mafwe traditional authority, armed secession.
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* Investigadora FPU, Departamento de Filosofía II, Universidad de Granada (España) - ester@ugr.es