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Title:Judicial Regulation and Administrative Control: Customary Law and the Nuer, 1898-1954
Author:Johnson, Douglas H.ISNI
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.
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