Social Facts and Fabrications Customary Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980

Name: Social Facts and Fabrications Customary Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980
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ISBN: 9780521312011

ISBN-10: 0521312019

ISBN-13: 9780521312011

Edition: 1986

Authors: Sally Falk Moore

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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/27/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of tables


List of illustrations


Foreword by Alfred Harris


Preface


Introduction: A time-orientated anthropology: events, processes and history



Precolonial Economy, Politics and Law



the nineteenth century on Kilimanjaro: ivory, slaves, cattle and warfare



Practical norms and mystical ideas in Chagga law



The powers and obligations of chiefs and commoners



Twentieth-century Transformations: Economy, Government, Courts and Cases



The German period: chiefs, cattle, cash and courts



The British colonial period and beyond: an economic overview



The formal structure of local government and local courts



The case reports



The modern uses of 'customary law': lineage, land and organisational control



The localised patriline in the 1960s and 1970s



The chronicle of the M - lineage



The local lineage and the larger setting


Epilogue: From types to sequences: social change in anthropology


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index