title: Modern Position of the Traditional Ngoni Leaders (сross-cultural Research Experience)
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metadata.value: Valieva, Elena G.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:10:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-24T11:10:56Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Valieva E. G. Modern Position of the Traditional Ngoni Leaders (сross-cultural Research Experience). Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2019, vol. 11, issue 4, pp. 542–565.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2019.409
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16961
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This article is devoted to analysis of public opinion regarding the activity and position of
  traditional leaders of the Ngoni ethnic community using data from sociological surveys of
  the Afrobarometer 2005–2015. Apart from the Ngoni respondents as monitoring category,
  Chewa, Yao, Nyanja, and Tumbuka people, whose languages are currently spoken by the majority
  of the Ngoni, were also integrated into the survey. First and foremost, in all the ethnic
  communities under consideration, democratic attitudes of the respondent’s majority are being
  revealed, since nepotism and autocracy were condemned. It is necessary to highlight the care
  towards the traditional leader’s political neutrality (they have to remain non-party, to receive
  salaries from the government and to serve on the local government council, participating in
  the elections for this). According to the fact, there is no ethnical specificity in the evaluation
  of the activities done by the traditional leaders as well as the elected politicians. The direction
  of the leader’s authority is rather limited: resolving local disputes and land distribution
  only. The Ngoni traditional leaders have credibility of high level, approval of their authority
  and influence that according to respondent’s expectations will increase in future. It is possible
  to predict that the borders between elected politicians and the Ngoni traditional leaders will
  gradually vanish. Maintaining self-identification of those who identify themselves as Ngoni to
  a greater extent than the performance of basic administrative functions by traditional leaders
  is facilitated by their activities in organizing cultural festivals and reviving Chingoni language.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research
  (project no. 18-011-00644 “Politogenesis: history of study, current situation and prospects of research”;
  supervisor V. A. Popov).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 11; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ngoni
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: traditional leader
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnic self-identification
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: public opinion analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Sub- Saharan Africa
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Modern Position of the Traditional Ngoni Leaders (сross-cultural Research Experience)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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