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Anne Griffiths originally went to Botswana to establish a university course in family law. But independent fieldwork in Botswana convinced her of the central role of the traditional customary legal system that stands alongside the colonial common law of courts and magistrates she was examining in her course. In the first comparative work on these two systems, Griffiths shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations that heavily favor males. Griffiths's analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society.
Kwena (African people) --- Women, Kwena. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Marriage customs and rites. --- Women, Kwena --- Kwena women --- Bakwena (African people) --- Ethnology --- Tswana (African people) --- Legal status, laws, etc --- Marriage customs and rites --- Mariage --- Droit coutumier --- Common law --- Ethnographie --- Femmes --- Statut légal --- Botswana
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In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms--local, international, legal, familial--affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.
Globalization --- Land tenure --- Land use --- Economic aspects --- Law and legislation --- Government policy --- Botswana.
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In Botswana's struggle to access international economies, few resources are as fundamental and fraught as control over land. Land, Power, and the Global considers the ways in which power in all its forms--local, international, legal, familial--affects the collision of global with local concerns over access to land and control over its use.
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Citizenship --- Identity (Psychology) --- Persons (Law). --- Social aspects.
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The modes in which historical research is being shaped have become themselves topics of research. Holocaust historiography-the documentation, depiction and analysis of one of the most horrific events in human history-is today a wide ranging academic field in which Jewish and non-Jewish scholars throughout the world are active. But how did this historiography, especially its Jewish aspect, emerge and by what factors was it shaped? This volume examines the very beginnings of the effort to apply scholarly standards to the understanding of the Holocaust-when World War II was still raging and immed
Legal polycentricity. --- Law and globalization. --- Law and anthropology.
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