Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique

Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment?

About the author

Juan Obarrio is assistant professor of anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Summary

Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community. The author examines the role of customary law in Mozambique to ask a larger question: what is the place of law in the neoliberal era, in which the juridical and the economic are deeply intertwined in an ongoing state of structural adjustment?

Product details

• Authors: Juan Obarrio, Obarrio Juan
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.10.2014
• EAN: 9780226153865
• ISBN: 978-0-226-15386-5
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; Mozambique, LAW / Common, Common Law, Systems of law: common law