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Title:Comparative land tenure of ten Tanganyika tribes
Author:Dobson, E.B.
Year:1954
Periodical:Journal of African Administration
Volume:6
Pages:80-91
Language:English
Geographic term:Tanzania
Subjects:customary law
land law
Abstract:The ten Tanganyika tribes (Arusha, Sambaa, Gogo, Arimi, Nyamwezi, Sukuma, Kerewe, Haya, Hanganza and Kuria) are classified according to their systems of rights, degree of scarcity of cultivable land and economic crops. The systems are classified as proprietary communal, clan, feudal, and semifeudal. The extension of the proprietary system must break down the control of the land by traditional chiefs and headmen, and little of their authority will remain. (Also published in: Tanganyika Notes & Records, no. 38 (1955), p. 31-38.)