Download or read book The Kipsigis written by Michael Saltman and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the basic problems of emerging nations is how to determine what factors are involved in the process of change in modernizing the legal system using customary law as the basis. How do old rules become obsolete and new rules institutionalized? In which domains of litigation do legal concepts, based on principles of Western jurisprudence, become relevant? In which domains of litigation do indigenous rules on non-Western customary law persist? In the more than fifty tribes of Kenya, customary law fulfills an extremely important function in settling contemporary civil disputes. Changes in a system of customary law are the consequences of many different factors; however, this study emphasizes those changes that the indigenous customary law has itself generated in adapting to changing socioeconomic conditions. In addition, the study looks for changes in the customary law attributable to the influence of the ideas and procedures inherent in British law. The Kipsigis tribe of west central Kenya is the model for this study of the rapidly changing culture of Kenya. Formerly under British rule, it has evolved trom a pastoral economy to one based on mixed farming--with a resulting change in the legal system from imprecise statements of custom to legal statements of ever greater precision.

Download or read book Citizen and Subject written by Mahmood Mamdani and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant--apartheid--as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. The result is a groundbreaking reassessment of colonial rule in Africa and its enduring aftereffects. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.

Download or read book A Bibliography of the Customary Laws of Kenya written by Richard L. Abel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Land and Territoriality written by Michael Saltman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land. This book considers the multiple roles ethnicity plays in fostering territorial conflicts, both violent and non-violent, across the globe. While land disputes relating to nationalism have resulted in the loss of human life in some regions, in others ties between ethnicity and land are asserted more peacefully. Nationalism and challenges to the validity of the links between people and places have caused widespread bloodshed in the disputed territory of Palestine, involving competing claims of Arabs and Jews, have led to war. In North America, however, indigenous Indians' claims to land are settled in the courts, rather than through violence. This book shows how human behaviour is affected by the multiple ways in which people identify with land, topography and natural resources. In doing so, it highlights the growing trend towards defining physical space in specific ethnic contexts, associated with a contemporary world that facilitates global movement.

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Download or read book Current Africanist Research written by International African Institute. Research Information Liaison Unit and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Casebook on Kenya Customary Law written by Eugene Cotran and published by McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Abstracts of the Annual Meeting American Anthropological Association written by American Anthropological Association and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Access to justice written by Mauro Cappelletti and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Kipsigis written by Ian Q. Orchardson and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: