This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa.
This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa.
Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology, Keele University, UK. She has published extensively on Law and Anthropology. Richard Werbner is Professor Emeritus in African Anthropology, Honorary Research Professor in Visual Anthropology, the University of Manchester, sometime Senior Post- Doctoral Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Senior Fellow (National Humanities Center), Overseas Professor (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka). He has recently given the Elliot P. Skinner Memorial Lecture for the Association for Africanist Anthropology, the Royal African Society Lecture, and the Jackman Lectures.
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction: Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism PART ONE: PUBLIC ETHICS AND LEGAL PLURALISM 2. Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village 3. Tlholego: Nature, Culture and Destiny 4. The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court 5. An Unburied Past: Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory 6. What's in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts PART TWO: LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ETHICS AND PLURALISM 7. Divorce as Process, Botswana Style: Customary Courts and Gender Activism 8. Adultery as Process, Botswana Style: Gender and Changing Customary Law 9. Inheritance as Turmoil: From Citizens' Forum to Magisterial Justice 10. A Case of Insult: Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations 11. A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment 12. Conclusion: Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics
1. Introduction: Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism PART ONE: PUBLIC ETHICS AND LEGAL PLURALISM 2. Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village 3. Tlholego: Nature, Culture and Destiny 4. The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court 5. An Unburied Past: Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory 6. What's in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts PART TWO: LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ETHICS AND PLURALISM 7. Divorce as Process, Botswana Style: Customary Courts and Gender Activism 8. Adultery as Process, Botswana Style: Gender and Changing Customary Law 9. Inheritance as Turmoil: From Citizens' Forum to Magisterial Justice 10. A Case of Insult: Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations 11. A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment 12. Conclusion: Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics
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