| Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Sellassie I Un Contributor(s): Gluckman, Max (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138596566 ISBN-13: 9781138596566 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Regional Studies - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Physical Information: 378 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The 18 papers in this volume, originally published in 1969 in English and French, with summaries in the other language, define and analyze in their wider social contexts the fundamental ideas and procedures to be found in African traditional systems of law. They assess the needs and problems of adaptation to changing conditions. The comprehensive introduction by Allott, Epsteina nd Gluckman provides a framework of analysis. It deals with the search for a common terminology in which to analyse and compare the different systems of customary law proceedings and evidence, codification and recording, reason and the occult, the conception of legal personality, succcession and inheritance, land rights, marriage and affiliation, injuries, liability and responsibility. |