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| Title: | Social facts and fabrications: 'customary' law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980 |
| Author: | Moore, Sally Falk |
| Year: | 1986 |
| Issue: | 1981 |
| Pages: | 397 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Lewis Henry Morgan lecture series |
| City of publisher: | Cambridge |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| ISBN: | 0521309387; 0521312019 |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | Chaga customary law |
| Abstract: | History of the customary law of the Chagga on Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. The first part describes the state of affairs on Kilimanjaro late in the 19th century. It reinterprets earlier ethnograhic descriptions to stress the early involvement of the Kilimanjaro economy in a system of regional and long-distance trade, punctuated by various forms of raiding and warfare. The second part sketches the vast economic and political transformations that came with cash cropping and colonial rule, and indicates the parallel changes in the formal legal system. 'Customary law' is seen to become a limited but important residual category, using old forms in new situations. Part three shows what goes on outside the official system. Its core consists of the 'legal' chronicle of the members of a particular localized Chagga patrilineage. |