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028 _a:Shankar books Agency Pvt. Ltd
_b:103, Munish Plaza 20 Ansari road Darya Ganj New Delhi
_c:IN23872/18-19
_d:15/12/2018
082 _a349.67826 MOO
100 _aMoore, Sally Falk,
245 _aSocial facts and fabrications
_b: "customary" law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980
_c/ Sally Falk Moore
260 _aNew York
_b : Cambridge University Press,
_c1986
300 _axvi, 397 pages
_b : illustrations
_c ; 24 cm.
365 _b2901
490 _a Lewis Henry Morgan lectures, 1981.
505 _aList of tables; List of illustrations; Foreword by Alfred Harris; Preface; Introduction: A time-orientated anthropology: events, processes and history; Part I. Precolonial Economy, Politics and Law: 1. the nineteenth century on Kilimanjaro: ivory, slaves, cattle and warfare; 2. Practical norms and mystical ideas in Chagga law; 3. The powers and obligations of chiefs and commoners; Part II. Twentieth-century Transformations: Economy, Government, Courts and Cases: 4. The German period: chiefs, cattle, cash and courts; 5. The British colonial period and beyond: an economic overview; 6. The formal structure of local government and local courts; 7. The case reports; Part III. The modern uses of 'customary law': lineage, land and organisational control: 8. The localised patriline in the 1960s and 1970s; 9. The chronicle of the M - lineage; 10. The local lineage and the larger setting; Epilogue: From types to sequences: social change in anthropology; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index.
520 _aIn this book, Sally Falk Moore examines a hundred years in the history of an African people, the Chagga of Kilimanjaro, in order to understand how their present system of 'customary' laws came to be and how the idea of custom was used in Tanzania's experiment with African socialism
650 _aLaw
650 _aLaw of specific jurisdictions, areas, socioeconomic regions,
650 _aCustomary law.
650 _aChaga (African people) -- Social life and customs.
650 _aGeschichte
700 _aMoore, Sally Falk,
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