05243nam 2200649 450 991046419600332120200520144314.09966-031-92-8(CKB)3710000000125869(EBL)1707213(SSID)ssj0001225911(PQKBManifestationID)11657606(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001225911(PQKBWorkID)11289634(PQKB)10835421(MiAaPQ)EBC1707213(OCoLC)899266864(MdBmJHUP)muse38438(PPN)187342806(Au-PeEL)EBL1707213(CaPaEBR)ebr10879018(CaONFJC)MIL664281(OCoLC)881417078(EXLCZ)99371000000012586920140616h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAfrican customary law an introduction /Peter OnyangoNairobi, Kenya ;Kampala, Uganda :LawAfrica,2013.©20131 online resource (206 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-32999-0 9966-031-34-0 Includes bibliographical references.Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; PREFACE; TABLE OF CASES; TABLE OF STATUTES; INTRODUCTION; THE STUDY OF CUSTOMARY LAW JUSTIFIED; SCOPE AND AIM; METHODOLOGY AND APPROACH; CHAPTER ONE -THE NATURE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW; 1.1 INTRODUCTION; 1.2 DEFINITION; 1.3 SUBJECTIVITY AND OBJECTIVITY OF THE LAW; 1.4 DEFINITION FROM OTHER SCHOLARS; 1.5 DEFINITION OF CUSTOMARY LAW; 1.6 SYSTEM; 1.7 LEGAL ETHNOGRAPHERS AND ANTHROPOLOGISTS; CHAPTER TWO -NATURE, CHARACTERISTICS, LIMITS; 2.1 INTRODUCTION; 2.2 CUSTOMARY RULES AND PRACTICES; 2.3 CHARACTERISTICS2.4 CONTEXTUALIZATION AND DIVERSITIES2.6 SCARCE BACK-UP AND LOW SUPPORTIVE POLITICAL WILL; 2.7 LACK OF BARGAIN POWER; 2.8 INCONSISTENCY PRINCIPLE; 2.9 REPUGNANCY PRINCIPLE; 2.10 RELIABILITY; 2.11 ORAL FORM IN THE JUDICIAL TRADITIONS; 2.12 CIVILIZATION CHALLENGE; 2.13 PROXIMITY; 2.14 SOURCES OF LAW; CHAPTER THREE -PRAXIS OF CUSTOMARY LAW; 3.1 INTRODUCTION; 3.2 KENYA; 3.3 ETHIOPIA; 3.4 SOMALIA; 3.5 NIGERIA; 3.6 GHANA; 3.7 SOUTH AFRICA; CHAPTER FOUR - THE USE OF CUSTOMARY LAW IN OTHER SYSTEMS; 4.1 INTRODUCTION; 4.2 BRITISH EXPERIENCE; 4.3 ROMAN EXPERIENCE; 4.4 INDIAN EXPERIENCECHAPTER FIVE -CONSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF CUSTOMARY LAW5.1 OLD CONSTITUTION; 5.2 NEW CONSTITUTION; 5.3 JUDICATURE ACT OF 1967; 5.4 THE QUESTION OF RANK; 5.5 APPLICABILITY OF CUSTOMARY LAW; CHAPTER SIX - GENESIS AND UPHEAVALS OF THE CUSTOMARY LAW; 6.1 INTRODUCTION; 6.2 BRITISH COLONIAL RULINGS (ORDINANCES); 6.3 FALL AND RISE OF AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW; 6.4 PRIORITIZING AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAW; 6.4.1 Background Study of Facts; 6.4.2 Islamic Marriage and Divorce; 6.4.3 Hindu Marriage and Divorce; 6.5 REVIVING AFRICAN TRADITION COURTS; 6.6 ABOLISHING AFRICAN COURTS6.7 QUALIFYING THE ROLE OF THE CHIEF AT AFRICAN CUSTOMARY LAWCHAPTER SEVEN -QUEST FOR INTEGRATED SYSTEM; 7.1 INTRODUCTION; 7.2 CONFLICT OF LAWS; 7.3 DEVELOPMENT OF MARRIAGE LAW; 7.4 DIVORCE AND INHERITANCE LAW; 7.5 LAW OF SUCCESSION; 7.6 LAND LAW; 7.7 SCHOLARLY EVALUATION OF THE INTEGRATED SYSTEM; 7.8 MORE ON SUCCESSION; 7.9 LAWS OF INHERITANCE IN KENYA; 7.10 UNIFORM CUSTOMARY LAW; CHAPTER EIGHT - QUEST FOR AFRICAN JURISPRUDENCE; 8.1 INTRODUCTION; 8.2 THE ROADMAP FOR AFRICA; 8.3 UBUNTU CONCEPT; 8.4 LINGUISTIC CHALLENGE; 8.5 IMPEDIMENTS TOWARDS THE INTEGRATED SYSTEM; 8.6 COLONIAL LEGACYCHAPTER NINE - DETERMINING THE FUTURE9.1 INTRODUCTION; 9.2 DEALING WITH AUTHENTICITY ISSUE; 9.3 THE DILEMMA; 9.4 INTRIGUING QUESTIONS; 9.4.1 Witchcraft; 9.4.2 Female Circumcision among some Tribes; 9.4.3 Dowry Law; 9.4.4 Bill On Dowry In Kenya; 9.5 LEGAL PRAGMATISM; CHAPTER TEN - CRITIQUES; 10.1 INTRODUCTION; 10.2 LACK OF CONFIDENCE IN THE COURT; 10.2.1 Rwandan Experience; 10.2.2 Kangaroo Court - Kenyan Experience; 10.3 THE FATE OF CUSTOMARY COURT; 10.3.1 Ghanian Experience; 10.3.2 Kenyan Experience; 10.3.3 Ugandan Experience; 10.4 PUNISHMENT IN CUSTOMARY LAW10.5 THE PERSPECTIVE OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE SYSTEMThe author is a Don at the School of Law, University of Nairobi Kenya and a development consultant with various NGOs and other international bodies in Eastern Africa region and Italy. He is a researcher and writer of articles and texts on matters concerning law and culture. Dr. Onyango is an expert in modern legal science with wide knowledge of law ranging from comparative legal system, international public law, ethics, philosophy, theology, sociology, mass media and social realities today. He is currently teaching Social Foundations of Law, Customary Law, International Public Law and InternatCustomary lawAfricaElectronic books.Customary law340.096Onyango Peter1033223MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464196003321African customary law2451639UNINA03116nam 2200553 a 450 991078135850332120230725051907.01-61735-347-7(CKB)2550000000035222(EBL)3315582(SSID)ssj0000536331(PQKBManifestationID)12179778(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000536331(PQKBWorkID)10546993(PQKB)11140294(MiAaPQ)EBC3315582(Au-PeEL)EBL3315582(CaPaEBR)ebr10468095(OCoLC)923175752(EXLCZ)99255000000003522220110106d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEpistemologies of ignorance in education[electronic resource] /edited by Erik Malewski and Nathalia JaramilloCharlotte, N.C. Information Age Pub.c20111 online resource (312 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61735-345-0 Includes bibliographical references.Preface : towards a decolonizing epistemology / Peter McLaren -- 1. Introduction : epistemologies of ignorance / Erik Malewski and Nathalia Jaramillo -- 2. Committing (to) ignorance : on method, myth, and pedagogy with Jacques Rancière / Molly Quinn -- 3. Towards an animal standpoint : vegan education and the epistemology of ignorance / Richard Kahn -- 4. Labyrinth of ignorance / Nathalia Jaramillo and Sandro Barros -- 5. Socrates, dialogue, and us : ignorance as learning paradigm / J. Gregory Keller and Deborah Biss Keller -- 6. Locating the foundations of epistemologies of ignorance in education ideology and practice / Dolores Calderón -- 7. Suffering with : seven moments of ignorance / Alexandra Fidyk -- 8. Student suicide : the relevance (and luxury) of ignorance / Teresa Rishel -- 9. Let the body out : a love letter to the academy from the BODY / Celeste Snowber -- 10. Unknown knowers : mediating knowledge in the "global village" / Stuart J. Murray and Twyla Gibson -- 11. Carnival of the uncanny / Peter Appelbaum -- 12. Reading have we known rivers? : indigeneity, language, and the significance of epistemologies of ignorance for curriculum studies / Erik Malewski -- 13. The riot in my soul : part I : a critical rant on race, rage, ignorance and the limits of formal education on these matters / Denise Taliaferro-Baszile -- 14. Epilogue : epistemologies of ignorance / Erik Malewski and Nathalia Jaramillo.Critical pedagogyEducationPhilosophyIgnorance (Theory of knowledge)Critical pedagogy.EducationPhilosophy.Ignorance (Theory of knowledge)370.1Malewski Erik1528087Jaramillo Nathalia E1528088MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781358503321Epistemologies of ignorance in education3771495UNINA