List of tables
List of illustrations
Foreword by Alfred Harris
Preface
Introduction: A time-orientated anthropology: events, processes and history
Part I. Precolonial Economy, Politics and Law: 1. the nineteenth century on Kilimanjaro: ivory, slaves, cattle and warfare
2. Practical norms and mystical ideas in Chagga law
3. The powers and obligations of chiefs and commoners
Part II. Twentieth-century Transformations: Economy, Government, Courts and Cases: 4. The German period: chiefs, cattle, cash and courts
5. The British colonial period and beyond: an economic overview
6. The formal structure of local government and local courts
7. The case reports
Part III. The modern uses of 'customary law': lineage, land and organisational control: 8. The localised patriline in the 1960s and 1970s
9. The chronicle of the M - lineage
10. The local lineage and the larger setting
Epilogue: From types to sequences: social change in anthropology
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.
