Research Catalog

Title

Marriage, land and custom : essays on law and social change in South Africa / editors, Aninka Claassens and Dee Smythe, general editor, Graham Bradfield.

Publication

Claremont : Juta, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Bradfield, G. (Graham)
• Claassens, Aninka
• Smythe, Dee.

Description

viii, 408 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Marriage, land & custom

Subject

• Customary law > South Africa
• Law > South Africa
• Marriage customs and rites > South Africa
• Msinga (South Africa) > Social conditions
• Single women > Social life and customs
• Single women > South Africa > Social conditions
• Social change > Msinga
• Women's rights > South Africa

Note

• First published as Acta Juridica 2013.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Marriage, land and custom : what's law got to do with it? Women, marriage and land : findings from a three-site survey -- Securing women's customary rights in land : the fallacy of institutional recognition -- Women'sland rights and social change in rural South Africa : the case of Msinga, Kwazulu-Natal -- Contesting customary law in the Eastern Cape : gender, place and land tenure -- Women's eviction in Msinga : the uncertainties of seeking justice -- Women, marriage and domestic arrangements in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa -- Changing patterns of marriage and cohabitation in South Africa -- Declining rates of marriage in South Africa : what do the numbers and analysts say? -- How social security becomes social insecurity : fluid hoseholds, crisis talk and the value of grants in a Kwazulu-Nata.

ISBN

• 9781485101529 (pbk.)
• 1485101522 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library