African Customary Justice : Living Law, Legal Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Hardcover)

Introduction: Living Law, Public Ethics and Legal Pluralism PART ONE: PUBLIC ETHICS AND LEGAL PLURALISM Looking Back: Small Man Politics and the Rule of Law in a Tswapong Village Tlholego: Nature, Culture and Destiny The Oracular Court of Sedimo vs. the Customary Court An Unburied Past: Chiefly Succession and the Politics of Memory What’s in a Name? The Struggle for Identity in Statutory Courts PART TWO: LEGAL SUBJECTIVITIES, ETHICS AND PLURALISM Divorce as Process, Botswana Style: Customary Courts and Gender Activism Adultery as Process, Botswana Style: Gender and Changing Customary Law 9. Inheritance as Turmoil: From Citizens’ Forum to Magisterial Justice 10. A Case of Insult: Emotions, Law and Witchcraft Accusations 11. A Moral Economy of Crime and the Proportionality of Punishment 12. Conclusion: Customary Law as Living Law, Legal Pluralism and Public Ethics