The role of women in disputing among the Ila of Zambia: political adaptation in legal change
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This article examines the role of female litigants within the changing social context of disputing and dispute processing among the Ila of Zambia. While the historical and contemporary case material upon which
this article is based ultimately reveals a complexity of substantive and
procedural points of law across the spectrum of disputing modes and disputing
forums available to aggrieved Ila females, here I am more concerned with the
elaboration of social realities in legal process -- the social forces which
shape legal expectations. Such elaboration, I argue, requires not only an
examination of law and dispute settlement, but also the political context of
disputing and dispute processing. This article, therefore, addresses itself
to rather skeletal theory generated from research conducted under the broad
heading of "the politics of law." [TRUNCATED]
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African Studies Center Working Paper No. 46
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Copyright © 1981, by the author.