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African renaissance
Author_Barbara Oomen
Barbara Oomen
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changing
changing legal
culture
customary law
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interrelation
Law & Development
laws
politics
post-apartheid South Africa
post-modern world
socio-political position
traditional authority
University of Amsterdam
Product details
- ISBN 9780852558805
- Weight: 444g
- Dimensions: 150 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 09 Aug 2005
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Examines the role of customary law and 'traditional' authority in contemporary South Africa.
There is a surprising resurgence of traditional authority, custom and culture in post-apartheid South Africa, as part of a conscious African renaissance. Yet customary law studies highlight the artificial origins of these 'traditional' institutions. This book poses three questions: what is the relation between the changing legal and socio-political position of traditional authority and customary law in the new South Africa? Why are they changing in this way? and, what does this teach us about the interrelation between laws, politics and culture in the post-modern world?
BARBARA OOMEN is Assistant Professor of Law & Development in the University of Amsterdam
North America: Palgrave; South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Barbara Oomen is Assistant Professor of Law at Leiden University.
