Anne Griffiths
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3585675 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anne Griffiths |
| NOMBRES | Anne |
| APELLIDO | Griffiths |
| FIRMA | GRIFFITHS A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1197-4180 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Transformative spaces
This paper explores how the classification of urban and rural space is enshrined in the formal legal system of Botswana involving multiple normative orders derived from the country's colonial past. In particular, it explores how these orders represent different types of land tenure. These depend on classification of land into state/urban and rural/customary domains, It traces the interactive dimensions at play in practice, highlighting complex re…
Remembering Keebet
Remembering Sally Engle Merry
This article reviews the scholarship and legacy of Sally Engle Merry who died on 8th September, 2020. If focuses on a number of research fields and themes that are central to her work and collaborative engagement with other scholars, primarily across the disciplines of anthropology, law, sociology and socio-legal studies. These research domains include neighbourhood justice and mediation, law and colonialism, human rights and transnational govern…
Thirty-six years on
This article considers the impact of the book People’s Law and State Law: the Bellagio Papers, edited by Anthony Allott and Gordon Woodman, published in 1985. It sets out why I consider this publication to be a seminal text in establishing and developing the field of legal pluralism, which had a great impact on both the development of the Journal of Legal Pluralism and on my own development as a young legal scholar. In looking beyond the text, I …
The Manaledi Clay Mine
Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…
Customary Law
Customary law has often been used in juxtaposition against state or national law, as representing a form of “local,” “indigenous,” “informal,” or “traditional” law that is different from state law. This perception is based on a historical, Western paradigm of law associated with lawyers' views of law. These endorse classic legal pluralism, based on dual systems of law theory, where the state or national law defines what counts as customary law in…
Moijabana Rocks-Pilikwe Pots
Throughout the history of potting in Botswana, from about CE200 to the present, potters have used a variety of clays. Alluvial clays are favored by most potters today, but petrographic analyses show that prehistoric potters preferred primary clays directly derived from granite and basalt. Fortunately, a few potters in the region today still use granite-derived clays. We trace the processes by which potters of Pilikwe village mine weathered granit…
Embodied histories
This paper addresses the temporalities of law in the context of everyday lives and people's access to and control over land in Botswana. Based on the life histories of two family groups, the Makokwes and the Radipatis, over several generations, it demonstrates how individuals’ access to resources alters and reconfigures in tune with household and family cycles across space and time, leading to varying life trajectories. These trajectories demonst…
Re-envisioning the local
Based on an ethnographic study located in Botswana, I move beyond conceptions of the local as physically or territorially grounded to one that examines how it is constituted through links between persons and land derived from life histories extended over several generations. This not only takes account of a specific site in which social relations are bounded and locally constituted but also of how perceptions of locality are discursively and hist…
Pursuing Legal Pluralism
The Jubilee Congress of the Commission on Legal Pluralism took place at the University of Cape Town in September 2011, and celebrated thirty years of the Commission’s role in understanding legal pluralism worldwide. Members have engaged in many debates over what constitutes legal pluralism and how it is to be perceived. From its inception in 1981, in Bellagio, Italy there was heated discussion about what to call law other than state law and how t…
Delivering Justice
This article argues for the important role of social networks in legal pluralism contexts, and in doing so for the importance of moving beyond abstract assertions about law and legal processes. It is based on an in-depth study (2009–2010) of women’s access to and control over land in Botswana, within a legal pluralist context where the state is highly heterogeneous and where customary and statutory law administer land through varying institutions…
Law, Space, and Place
In her book Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities (2006) , Susan Drummond challenges the disciplinary perspectives of comparative law and legal anthropology in her study of Gitano marriage practices. By reframing the way in which the “local” or “locale” is viewed—through an ethnographic study of Gitanos—she displaces the traditional boundaries ascribed to comparative law, with its focus on taxonomy and structure, and with legal anthr…
Children's Confidentiality at the Crossroad
This article analyses the role played by panel members in the Scottish Children's Hearings System. In particular, the article focuses on the ways in which panel members attempts to involve children in the decision‐making process by seeking their views. Section 46 of Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 comes in for particular attention in this regard as it empowers panel members to clear the room in order to speak privately with the child.…
Women's Worlds, Siblings in Dispute over Inheritance
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
Gendering culture
This chapter adopts a gendered perspective on rights and culture which highlights how women and men negotiate their procreative relationships and the claims that arise from this in daily life in Botswana. Based on research carried out in the village of Molepolole between 1982 and 1989, it is a local-level ethnographic study focused on the concrete and specific ways in which gender frames the relations of power up on which negotiations concerning …
Culture and Rights
Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives
Remaking Law
In her book Susan Hirsch explores how Swahili Muslim women in the Kenyan coastal cities of Mombasa and Malindi pursue marital disputes in local Kadhi's (Islamic) courts. Focusing in particular on the Malindi Kadhi's court, Hirsch highlights how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform the religious and local norms that underlie their disadvantaged position in this Swahili community in postcolonial Kenya. In her microlevel study, bas…
In the Shadow of Marriage
Gender, Power, and Difference
Anne M.O. Griffiths, In the Shadow of Marriage
Agnete Weis Bentzon, Anne Hellum, Julie Stewart, Welshman Ncube and Torben Agersnap, Pursuing Grounded Theory in Law
Women and Gender in African Studies
Legal Pluralism in Botswana
Reconfiguring Law
Using two marital disputes, this article examines women's experiences in bringing legal claims regarding family property in Botswana . It highlights the ways women draw on diverse economic and social resources available to them through their differing positions within gendered social networks that shape daily life and affect the ability to access and manipulate a legal system incorporating Tswana customary law and European law. The divergent disc…
In the Shadow of Marriage
Reconfiguring Law
Using two marital disputes, this article examines women's experiences in bringing legal claims regarding family property in Botswana . It highlights the ways women draw on diverse economic and social resources available to them through their differing positions within gendered social networks that shape daily life and affect the ability to access and manipulate a legal system incorporating Tswana customary law and European law. The divergent disc…
Legal Pluralism in Africa
Gender, Power, and Difference
In the Shadow of Marriage
The Manaledi Clay Mine
Current potters in Manaledi village in the Tswapong Hills of Botswana aver that they and their ancestors for five generations have made pottery exclusively with clay from nearby sources. We begin with an examination of Manaledi and its clay mine to uncover current dialectics between village, landscape, clay, potters, and ancestors. Archaeological sherds found around the village and clay sources document occupation by makers of Early Iron Age (ca.…
Law, Space, and Place
In her book Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities (2006) , Susan Drummond challenges the disciplinary perspectives of comparative law and legal anthropology in her study of Gitano marriage practices. By reframing the way in which the “local” or “locale” is viewed—through an ethnographic study of Gitanos—she displaces the traditional boundaries ascribed to comparative law, with its focus on taxonomy and structure, and with legal anthr…
Women's Worlds, Siblings in Dispute over Inheritance
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
Remaking Law
In her book Susan Hirsch explores how Swahili Muslim women in the Kenyan coastal cities of Mombasa and Malindi pursue marital disputes in local Kadhi's (Islamic) courts. Focusing in particular on the Malindi Kadhi's court, Hirsch highlights how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform the religious and local norms that underlie their disadvantaged position in this Swahili community in postcolonial Kenya. In her microlevel study, bas…
Transformative spaces
This paper explores how the classification of urban and rural space is enshrined in the formal legal system of Botswana involving multiple normative orders derived from the country's colonial past. In particular, it explores how these orders represent different types of land tenure. These depend on classification of land into state/urban and rural/customary domains, It traces the interactive dimensions at play in practice, highlighting complex re…
Re-envisioning the local
Based on an ethnographic study located in Botswana, I move beyond conceptions of the local as physically or territorially grounded to one that examines how it is constituted through links between persons and land derived from life histories extended over several generations. This not only takes account of a specific site in which social relations are bounded and locally constituted but also of how perceptions of locality are discursively and hist…
Children's Confidentiality at the Crossroad
This article analyses the role played by panel members in the Scottish Children's Hearings System. In particular, the article focuses on the ways in which panel members attempts to involve children in the decision‐making process by seeking their views. Section 46 of Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 comes in for particular attention in this regard as it empowers panel members to clear the room in order to speak privately with the child.…
Agnete Weis Bentzon, Anne Hellum, Julie Stewart, Welshman Ncube and Torben Agersnap, Pursuing Grounded Theory in Law
Women and Gender in African Studies
Legal Duality
This paper is concerned with the relationship that exists between Customary and Common law in Botswana. Does it promote conflict or concord? This will be explored with reference to the general relationship between the two systems and in the particular context of marriage, divorce and division of property. One may argue for the conflict approach if one views the systems as ppositional or one may argue that there is concord by acquiescence, given t…
Support for Women with Dependent Children under the Customary System of the Bakwena and the Roman-Dutch Common and Statutory Law of Botswana
(1984). Support for Women with Dependent Children under the Customary System of the Bakwena and the Roman-Dutch Common and Statutory Law of Botswana. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 16, No. 22, pp. 1-15
The ‘Women’s Question’ in Kwena Family Disputes
Between Paradigms
Legal Pluralism in Africa
Legal Pluralism in Botswana
Reconfiguring Law
Using two marital disputes, this article examines women's experiences in bringing legal claims regarding family property in Botswana . It highlights the ways women draw on diverse economic and social resources available to them through their differing positions within gendered social networks that shape daily life and affect the ability to access and manipulate a legal system incorporating Tswana customary law and European law. The divergent disc…
In the Shadow of Marriage
Anne M.O. Griffiths, In the Shadow of Marriage
Agnete Weis Bentzon, Anne Hellum, Julie Stewart, Welshman Ncube and Torben Agersnap, Pursuing Grounded Theory in Law
Women and Gender in African Studies
In the Shadow of Marriage
Gender, Power, and Difference
Gendering culture
This chapter adopts a gendered perspective on rights and culture which highlights how women and men negotiate their procreative relationships and the claims that arise from this in daily life in Botswana. Based on research carried out in the village of Molepolole between 1982 and 1989, it is a local-level ethnographic study focused on the concrete and specific ways in which gender frames the relations of power up on which negotiations concerning …
Culture and Rights
Do people everywhere have the same, or even compatible, ideas about multiculturalism, indigenous rights or women's rights? The authors of this book move beyond the traditional terms of the universalism versus cultural relativism debate. Through detailed case-studies from around the world (Hawaii, France, Thailand, Botswana, Greece, Nepal and Canada) they explore the concrete effects of rights talk and rights institutions on people's lives
Remaking Law
In her book Susan Hirsch explores how Swahili Muslim women in the Kenyan coastal cities of Mombasa and Malindi pursue marital disputes in local Kadhi's (Islamic) courts. Focusing in particular on the Malindi Kadhi's court, Hirsch highlights how Muslim women actively use legal processes to transform the religious and local norms that underlie their disadvantaged position in this Swahili community in postcolonial Kenya. In her microlevel study, bas…
Women's Worlds, Siblings in Dispute over Inheritance
Africa Today - Volume 49, Number 1, Spring 2002
Children's Confidentiality at the Crossroad
This article analyses the role played by panel members in the Scottish Children's Hearings System. In particular, the article focuses on the ways in which panel members attempts to involve children in the decision‐making process by seeking their views. Section 46 of Part II of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 comes in for particular attention in this regard as it empowers panel members to clear the room in order to speak privately with the child.…
Law, Space, and Place
In her book Mapping Marriage Law in Spanish Gitano Communities (2006) , Susan Drummond challenges the disciplinary perspectives of comparative law and legal anthropology in her study of Gitano marriage practices. By reframing the way in which the “local” or “locale” is viewed—through an ethnographic study of Gitanos—she displaces the traditional boundaries ascribed to comparative law, with its focus on taxonomy and structure, and with legal anthr…
Pursuing Legal Pluralism
The Jubilee Congress of the Commission on Legal Pluralism took place at the University of Cape Town in September 2011, and celebrated thirty years of the Commission’s role in understanding legal pluralism worldwide. Members have engaged in many debates over what constitutes legal pluralism and how it is to be perceived. From its inception in 1981, in Bellagio, Italy there was heated discussion about what to call law other than state law and how t…
Delivering Justice
This article argues for the important role of social networks in legal pluralism contexts, and in doing so for the importance of moving beyond abstract assertions about law and legal processes. It is based on an in-depth study (2009–2010) of women’s access to and control over land in Botswana, within a legal pluralist context where the state is highly heterogeneous and where customary and statutory law administer land through varying institutions…
Re-envisioning the local
Based on an ethnographic study located in Botswana, I move beyond conceptions of the local as physically or territorially grounded to one that examines how it is constituted through links between persons and land derived from life histories extended over several generations. This not only takes account of a specific site in which social relations are bounded and locally constituted but also of how perceptions of locality are discursively and hist…
Embodied histories
This paper addresses the temporalities of law in the context of everyday lives and people's access to and control over land in Botswana. Based on the life histories of two family groups, the Makokwes and the Radipatis, over several generations, it demonstrates how individuals’ access to resources alters and reconfigures in tune with household and family cycles across space and time, leading to varying life trajectories. These trajectories demonst…
Moijabana Rocks-Pilikwe Pots
Throughout the history of potting in Botswana, from about CE200 to the present, potters have used a variety of clays. Alluvial clays are favored by most potters today, but petrographic analyses show that prehistoric potters preferred primary clays directly derived from granite and basalt. Fortunately, a few potters in the region today still use granite-derived clays. We trace the processes by which potters of Pilikwe village mine weathered granit…
Customary Law
Customary law has often been used in juxtaposition against state or national law, as representing a form of “local,” “indigenous,” “informal,” or “traditional” law that is different from state law. This perception is based on a historical, Western paradigm of law associated with lawyers' views of law. These endorse classic legal pluralism, based on dual systems of law theory, where the state or national law defines what counts as customary law in…
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