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‘THESE LAWS SHOULD BE MADE BY US’: CUSTOMARY MARRIAGE LAW, CODIFICATION AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLONIAL GABON

JEAN-BAPTISTE, RACHEL·2008·The Journal of African History
DOI 10.1017/s0021853708003617
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This article analyzes the multiple and failed efforts to codify customary marriage law over the course of the twentieth century in colonial Gabon. It argues that these efforts illuminate the discursive arenas in which the colonial state, the church and African political leaders struggled to demarcate power and control over wealth-in-women. In a time of sociopolitical crisis and change state, chiefs and other elite African men all become involved in attempts to conceptualize, codify and administer customary marriage law. The contested process of codification reveals disjunctures in the articulation of male political authority in colonial Gabon.

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Authors
JEAN-BAPTISTE, R.
Venue
The Journal of African History
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
2008-07
Volume
49
Issue
2
Pages
217-240
ISSN
  • 0021-8537 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-5138
DOI
10.1017/s0021853708003617
OpenAlex
W2015563386
Cited by
16
References
7
Citations by year
2022: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 1
FWCI
8.68
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 85 d)
Locations
The Journal of African History (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › African history and culture studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › African Studies and Ethnography
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Legal and cultural studies analysis
Keywords
customary marriage law, codification, political authority, chiefs, colonial state, church, African political leaders, women's property, colonial legal history

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