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Martin Chanock, Law, Custom, and Social Order: The Colonial Experience in Malawi and Zambia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Sally Falk Moore, Social Facts and Fabrications: “Customary Law” on Kilimanjaro, 1880–1980. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Joan Vincent, Anthropology and Politics: Visions, Traditions, and Trends. Tucson: University of Arizona Press. 1990.

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Sally Engle Merry
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Law & Society Review , Volume 25 , Issue 4 , 1991 , pp. 889 - 922
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Copyright © 1991 by The Law and Society Association

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I am grateful to Jane Collier, Brinkley Messick, and Austin Sarat for many helpful suggestions and comments on an earlier draft and for the editorial suggestions of the Review.

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