Kinship, marriage and urban-rural relations : a preliminary study of law and social control among the Nkyoa of Kaoma district and of Lusaka, Zambia

TitleKinship, marriage and urban-rural relations : a preliminary study of law and social control among the Nkyoa of Kaoma district and of Lusaka, Zambia
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication1974
AuthorsW.M.J. van Binsbergen
Pagination1 - 36
Date Published1974///
Publishers.n.]
Place Published[S.l.
Publication Languageeng
KeywordsAfrica, customary law, family law, marriage, Nkoya, Rural, Zambia
Abstract

Explores some of the main characteristics of the legal system of the present-day Nkoya of Zambia, and relates this system on the one hand to the official legel system as it is mainly represented among the Nkoya, by the local court, on the other hand to the general structure of Nkoya society in both its rural and its urban aspects

Notes

Paper presented on the seminar "New directions in African family law", org. by the Africa Studie-Centrum, Leiden, 30th September-4th October 1974

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