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- catalog abstract ""Anne Griffiths originally went to Botswana to establish a university course in family law. But independent fieldwork in Botswana convinced her of the central role of the traditional customary legal system that stands alongside the colonial common law of courts and magistrates she was examining in her course. In the first comparative work on these two systems, Griffiths shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations that heavily favor males. Griffiths's analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society"--Publisher description.".
- catalog contributor b10422970.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description ""Anne Griffiths originally went to Botswana to establish a university course in family law. But independent fieldwork in Botswana convinced her of the central role of the traditional customary legal system that stands alongside the colonial common law of courts and magistrates she was examining in her course. In the first comparative work on these two systems, Griffiths shows how the structure of both legal institutions is based on power and gender relations that heavily favor males. Griffiths's analysis is based on careful observation of how people actually experience the law as well as the more standard tools of statutes and cases familiar to Western legal scholars. She explains how women's access to law is determined by social relations over which they have little control. In this powerful feminist critique of law and anthropology, Griffiths shows how law and custom are inseparable for Kwena women. Both colonial common law and customary law pose comparable and constant challenges to Kwena women's attempts to improve their positions in society"--Publisher description.".
- catalog description "Academic narratives: models and methods in the search for meanings -- The gendered dynamics of households: managing resources, procreation, and marriage -- Diverging families: social stratification, procreation, and marriage -- Pregnancy and marriage: the world of negotiation and dispute -- The gendered world of marriage: claims of desertion and neglect -- Untying the knot: public dissolution and division of property -- Final partings: institutional encounters and the shifting boundaries of law -- Reconfiguring law: a differentiating perspective.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-297) and index.".
- catalog extent "ix, 310 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0226308731 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0226308758 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chicago : University of Chicago Press,".
- catalog subject "305.3/096883 21".
- catalog subject "DT2458.K84 G75 1997".
- catalog subject "Kwena (African people) Legal status, laws, etc.".
- catalog subject "Kwena (African people) Marriage customs and rites.".
- catalog subject "Women, Kwena.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Academic narratives: models and methods in the search for meanings -- The gendered dynamics of households: managing resources, procreation, and marriage -- Diverging families: social stratification, procreation, and marriage -- Pregnancy and marriage: the world of negotiation and dispute -- The gendered world of marriage: claims of desertion and neglect -- Untying the knot: public dissolution and division of property -- Final partings: institutional encounters and the shifting boundaries of law -- Reconfiguring law: a differentiating perspective.".
- catalog title "In the shadow of marriage : gender and justice in an African community / Anne M.O. Griffiths.".
- catalog type "text".