The state and the paradox of customary law in Africa / edited by Olaf Zenker and Markus Virgil Hoehne.

Other author Zenker, Olaf.
Other author H©œhne, Markus Virgil.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Descriptionxi, 232 pages : illustrations, maps 25 cm.
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Subjects
Customary law--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

SeriesCultural diversity and law
Contents Processing the paradox : when the state has to deal with customary law / Olaf Zenker & Markus Virgil Hoehne -- Bush-level bureaucrats in South African land restitution : implementing state law under chiefly rule / Olaf Zenker -- State police and tradition in post-war Mozambique : the dilemmas of claiming sovereignty in legal pluralistic contexts / Helene Maria Kyed -- Mixing oil and water? : colonial state justice and the challenge of witchcraft accusations in central Equatoria, Southern Sudan / Cherry Leonardi -- When the state is forced to deal with local law : approaches of and challenges for state actors in emerging south sudan / Katrin Seidel -- Co-opted, abolished, democratized : the Guinean state's strategies towards elders / Anita Schroven -- State-orchestrated access to land dispute settlement in Africa : land conflicts and new-wave land reform in Tanzania / Rasmus H. Pedersen -- One country, two systems : hybrid political orders (HPOs) and legal and political friction in Somaliland / Markus Virgil Hoehne -- The complexity of legal pluralist settings : an afterword / Janine Ubink.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017041704
ISBN9781409468639 (hbk)
ISBNebook

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