Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980CUP Archive, 1986 M06 27 - 416 pages In this book, Sally Falk Moore examines a hundred years in the history of an African people, the Chagga of Kilimanjaro, in order to understand how their present system of 'customary' laws came to be the way it is, and how the idea of custom was used in Tanzania's experiment with African socialism. She discusses the changes that have occurred in the formal legal system, alongside the vast economic and political transformations that came with cash cropping and colonial rule. She also presents a 'legal' chronicle of the members of one lineage to illustrate its use of the formal legal system. This study of the difference between law in the life of a people and law in the local courts will interest teachers and students of legal anthropology and law and also provides an important contribution to anthropological theory. In addition it has practical relevance for the understanding of the operation of 'traditional' institutions and will appeal to readers interested in African history and African studies. |
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Contents
A timeoriented anthropology events processes | 1 |
ivory slaves cattle | 15 |
Practical norms and mystical ideas in Chagga law | 38 |
The powers and obligations of chiefs and commoners | 52 |
Tables | 80 |
chiefs cattle cash and courts | 95 |
an economic | 110 |
Progress of African coffee production on Kilimanjaro page | 120 |
Mwika court records | 175 |
Kilema court records | 176 |
KeniMritiMengwe court records | 177 |
Mamba court records | 178 |
Marangu court cases | 179 |
The localized patriline in the 1960s and 1970s | 213 |
Amounts of land in 1969 in and out of the core area | 233 |
Education occupation house type and circumcision of wives 1969 | 234 |
Sources of rural employment in Kilimanjaro district | 136 |
Kilimanjaro population occupations by sex 1978 | 137 |
The formal structure of local government and local courts | 139 |
Lutheran church marriages in Mamba | 140 |
Hierarchy of judicial levels mid1970s | 159 |
Judiciary 1973 | 160 |
The case reports | 168 |
Civil case records | 174 |
The localism of marriage affinal connections of the | 238 |
The localism of marriagesisters of the men of the | 240 |
The chronicle of the Mlineage | 244 |
The local lineage and the larger setting | 298 |
From types to sequences social change | 320 |
Notes | 330 |
Glossary | 373 |
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Social Facts and Fabrications: "Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 Sally Falk Moore No preview available - 1986 |
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