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The spirit of the laws in Mozambique / Juan Obarrio.
LIBRA DT3389 .O34 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Obarrio, Juan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship.
- Mozambique--Politics and government--1994-.
- Mozambique.
- Politics and government.
- Citizenship--Mozambique.
- Ethnology--Mozambique.
- Ethnology.
- Political science.
- Physical Description:
- 274 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- Summary:
- Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals. As Juan Obarrio shows, however, this view neglects a crucial element in Mozambique's transition to the rule of law: the reestablishment of traditional chieftainship and customs entangled within colonial violence and war. Drawing on extensive historical records and ethnographic fieldwork, he looks at local rituals and relations and the ways they produce an emergent type of customary citizenship, thus asking a larger question: What is the place of law in the neoliberal era? Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Part I
- Chapter 1 Mozambique: Before the Law 19
- Chapter 2 Law as History 32
- Chapter 3 The State of Things 63
- Part II
- Chapter 4 A Minor State 121
- Chapter 5 Poetic Justice 150
- Chapter 6 Next of Kin 176
- Chapter 7 Subject: To the Law 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226153728
- 022615372X
- 9780226153865
- 022615386X
- OCLC:
- 870097981
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