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Title: | Judicial Regulation and Administrative Control: Customary Law and the Nuer, 1898-1954 |
Author: | Johnson, Douglas H. |
Year: | 1986 |
Periodical: | The Journal of African History |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 59-78 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Sudan |
Subjects: | Nuer colonial administration customary law colonialism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) History and Exploration Law, Human Rights and Violence |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/181337 |
Abstract: | The author examines how the administrative approach to Nuer customary law varied over a period of some fifty years, and how judicial regulation was introduced as a strategy in establishing and maintaining administrative control over the Nuer and eventually became the main function of local government among the Nuer. The Anglo-Egyptian government never fully resolved the contradiction inherent in its policy of justifying its own acts by referring back to custom, but altering custom in the very act to co-opting it. The reason for working through customary law was not preservation but administrative control. Notes, sum. |