Law and anthropology: a necessary partnership for the study of legal change in plural systems

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Title:	Law and anthropology: a necessary partnership for the study of legal change in plural systems
Author:	Holleman, J.F.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	Journal of African Law
Volume:	23
Issue:	2
Pages:	117-130
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	Shona legislation customary law
Abstract:	The abbreviated text of a lecture delivered at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on the 5th May, 1978. This lecture is presented largely as a testimony of the author's personal experience (legal anthropological fieldwork in a remote part of Mashonaland, 1945); focus is mainly on the some vital problems in the field of African jurisdiction, and specifically of an effective administration of justice in situations in which two or more very different legal cultures, indigenous and foreign, coexist interact in a process of progressive and inevitable change and adaptation. Evidence is produced on which the author bases his profound conviction that Law and Anthropology must necessarily go hand in hand to gain some insight into the immense complexities and disparate needs involved in the development of a reasonably well adjusted legal order in plural societies. Notes.