How Long to Read African Customary Justice

How Long Does it Take to Read African Customary Justice?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 7 minutes to read African Customary Justice by Pnina Werbner

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

This book presents an important ethnographic and theoretical advance in legal anthropological scholarship by interrogating customary law, customary courts and legal pluralism in sub-Saharan Africa. It highlights the vitality and continued relevance of customary justice at a time when customary courts have waned or even disappeared in many postcolonial African nations. Taking Botswana as a casestudy from in-depth fieldwork over a fifty-year period, the book shows, the ‘customary’ is robustly enduring, central to settling interpersonal disputes and constitutive of the local as well as the national public ethics. Customary law continues to be constitutionally protected, authorised by the country’s past as an authentic, viable legacy, from the British colonial period of indirect rule to the postcolonial state’s present development as a highly bureaucratised democracy. Along with a theoretical overview of the underlying issues for the anthropology and sociology of law, the book documents customary law as living law in the context of legal pluralism. It takes a legal realist approach and highlights the need to pay close attention to the lived experience of justice and its role in the production of legal subjectivities. The book will be valuable to Africanists but also, more broadly, to social scientists, social historians and socio-legal scholars with interests in law and social change, public ethics and personal morality, and the intersection of politics and judicial decision making.

How long is African Customary Justice?

African Customary Justice by Pnina Werbner is 298 pages long, and a total of 76,884 words.

This makes it 101% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read African Customary Justice Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours to read African Customary Justice aloud.

What Reading Level is African Customary Justice?

African Customary Justice is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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