African Customary Justice: Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics

by Pnina Werbner and Richard Werbner

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1032149469

ISBN13:9781032149462

Release Date:September 2023

Publisher:Routledge

Length:282 Pages

Weight:0.93 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

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