A Handbook of Tswana Law and Custom

I. Schapera

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429638114
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

Originally published in 1938, the primary object of this book was to place on record, for the information and guidance of government officials and of the Tswana themselves, the traditional and modern laws and related customs of the Tswana tribes of the Bechuanaland Protectorate. The author was invited in 1934 by the Administration of the Protectorate to undertake the compilation of such a record and the book does not pretend to give a complete account of Tswana life, but deals only with those aspects which may be regarded as falling within the province of tribal law.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Original Title
• Original Copyright
• Contents
• INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
• PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION
• SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
• CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA
• I. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE TSWANA TRIBES
• II. THE NATURE AND SOURCES OF TSWANA LAW
• III. THE TRIBAL CONSTITUTION
• IV. THE TRIBAL CONSTITUTION (contd.)
• V. THE TRIBAL CONSTITUTION (contd.)
• VI. THE TRIBAL CONSTITUTION (contd.)
• VII. FAMILY LAW
• VIII. FAMILY LAW (contd.)
• IX. FAMILY LAW (contd.)
• X. FAMILY LAW (contd.)
• XI. LAW OF PROPERTY
• XII. LAW OF PROPERTY (contd.)
• XIII. LAW OF PROPERTY (contd.)
• XIV. LAW OF CONTRACT
• XV. LEGAL WRONGS
• XVI. PROCEDURE
• APPENDIX I. Genealogical Tables of Tswana Royal Families
• APPENDIX II. Lists of Tswana Mephatô (Age-Regiments)
• INDEX
• SKETCH MAP, showing Distribution of the Principal Tribes