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  1. Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

    Formal and informal dispute resolution in the Limpopo Province, South Africa

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: C. S. van der Waal --- Dept. of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
    The study of customary law benefits from a focus on both its formal rules and mechanisms and the informal aspect. The complexity of ‘living law’ is best captured by considering process and context. The working of the three-leveled formal traditional...
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  2. Widow ‘dispossession’ in northern Namibian inheritance

    Widow ‘dispossession’ in northern Namibian inheritance

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Robert J. Gordon --- Department of Anthropology,
    This paper examines ‘asset stripping’ which is said to occur particularly in matrilineal societies when young widows are stripped of their late husband's possessions. Contrary to many scholars who see asset stripping as a recent phenomenon and who believe that...
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  3. Good or bad, my heritage: customary legal practices and the liberal constitution of postcolonial states

    Good or bad, my heritage: customary legal practices and the liberal constitution of postcolonial states

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Thomas Widlok --- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands
    The post-colonial constitutions of Namibia (1990) and of South Africa (1996) in principle allow for ‘indigenous’ or ‘customary’ law within the framework set by constitutional law. Developments in recent years, in particular in the course of debates surrounding the reform...
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  4. Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia

    Life covers, risk and security — anthropological perspectives of social insurances: a case study from Namibia

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Sabine Klocke-Daffa --- Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany
    With the end of apartheid in Namibia, private insurance companies opened their product range to what they call the “black market.” The increased demand for social insurance is not only because of a lack of security and state-provided welfare programmes...
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  5. The convergence of HIV/AIDS and customary tenure on women's access to land in rural Malawi

    The convergence of HIV/AIDS and customary tenure on women's access to land in rural Malawi

    Item type: Journal Article • Journal: SAHARA-J: Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS • Authors: Naomi Tschirhart --- , , Canada Lucky Kabanga --- , , Malawi Sue Nichols --- , , Canada
    This paper examines the convergence of HIV/AIDS and the social processes through which women access customary land in rural Malawi. Data were collected from focus group discussions with women in patrilineal and matrilineal communities. Women's land tenure is primarily determined...
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