Author: J. C. Bekker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012163
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa: Customary law
Author: J. C. Bekker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012163
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012163
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa
Author: . Rautenbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The book deals with the following topics: Law of persons; Law of marriage; Law of succession; and constitutional analysis in Hindu, Christianity, Jewish, and Islam Law.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012170
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
The book deals with the following topics: Law of persons; Law of marriage; Law of succession; and constitutional analysis in Hindu, Christianity, Jewish, and Islam Law.
Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa
Author: Christa Rautenbach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776173259
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776173259
Category : Black people
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
INTRODUCTION TO LEGAL PLURALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA
Author: RAUTENBACH.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780639000824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780639000824
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa
Author: J. C. Bekker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012170
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780409012170
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Introduction to Legal Pluralism in South Africa
Author:
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 9780409021790
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 9780409021790
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
African Customary Justice
Author: Pnina Werbner
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000519015
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the ‘customary’ is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country’s past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state’s present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000519015
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
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. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the ‘customary’ is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country’s past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state’s present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.
The Future of Tradition
Author: Leon Shaskolsky Sheleff
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136326081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the variety of cultures co-existing within one state, and a growing acknowledgement of the values ensconced in pluralistic social structures. this book examines the manner in which indigenous people can function in modern states, preserving their traditional customs, while simultaneously adapting aspects of their culture to the challenges posed by modern life. Whereas it was formerly assumed that these tribal frameworks were doomed to extinction, and some states even encouraged such a process, there has been a revival in their vitality, linked to a recognition of their rights. The book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, focusing on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty, legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life. A focused study is made of a whole series of legal factors, relating to possession and ownership of land, religious rites, the nature of polygamous marriages, the assertion of group rites, the manner of peacefully resolving disputes and allied questions. Recent judicial decisions are analysed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the former disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them. The comparison between approaches of different English-speaking countries provides an account of interwoven developments.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136326081
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
Recent years have seen an increased interest in the variety of cultures co-existing within one state, and a growing acknowledgement of the values ensconced in pluralistic social structures. this book examines the manner in which indigenous people can function in modern states, preserving their traditional customs, while simultaneously adapting aspects of their culture to the challenges posed by modern life. Whereas it was formerly assumed that these tribal frameworks were doomed to extinction, and some states even encouraged such a process, there has been a revival in their vitality, linked to a recognition of their rights. The book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, focusing on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty, legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life. A focused study is made of a whole series of legal factors, relating to possession and ownership of land, religious rites, the nature of polygamous marriages, the assertion of group rites, the manner of peacefully resolving disputes and allied questions. Recent judicial decisions are analysed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the former disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them. The comparison between approaches of different English-speaking countries provides an account of interwoven developments.
Legal Pluralism in South Africa
Author: Lesala L. Mofokeng
Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers
ISBN: 9780627027628
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Publisher: Van Schaik Publishers
ISBN: 9780627027628
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Legal Pluralism in Africa
Author: Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789788407553
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789788407553
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description