TY - BOOK AU - Juan Obarrio AU - Juan Obarrio TI - The spirit of the laws in Mozambique SN - 9780226153865 U1 - 349.679 OBA PY - 2014/// CY - Chicago ; London PB - : The University of Chicago Press KW - Social Sciences KW - Mozambique -- Politics and government KW - Ethnology -- Mozambique N1 - Mozambique before the law -- Law as history -- The state of things -- A minor state -- Poetic justice -- Next of kin -- Subject : to the law -- Conclusion N2 - Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment? ER -