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

by Pnina Werbner and Richard Werbner

Book Overview

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"