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100 1 0 _aMoore, Sally Falk
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700 1 0 _a Delbaere-Garant, Jeanne
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245 0 0 _aCustomary Law in One Area of 20th Century Africa: The Chagga of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania
260 _c2013.
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520 _aThe term “customary law” has many layers of meaning when applied to the African experience. This paper gives a vivid example of a practice of the Chagga people of Kilimanjaro which they regard as a matter of custom. But the paper also makes clear that the idea of customary law has had changing significance in the British colonial period, in the post-colonial present, and in anthropological theory. The paper presents some of the concepts which Professor Sally Moore has found useful in analyzing this complex topic.
786 0 _nDiogenes | o 239-240 | 3 | 2013-08-29 | p. 244-261 | 0419-1633
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-diogene-2012-3-page-244?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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