Book
Essay on the common law of Ruanda
M. Hayez, imprimeur de l'Académie Royale de Belgique • Bruxelles • Published In 1941 • Pages:
By: Hove, Julien van, Crawford, Dorothy.
Abstract
Vanhove was a colonial administrator and lawyer. This essay, a systematic account of native laws and customs, is based upon information gathered from questionnaires sent ot knowledgeable natives. It has materials on the family and clan, marriage and divorce, birth and death, family relations, property system, inheritance and guardianship, government structure, taxation, social classes, and the administration of justice. Since the author is writing primarily from the legal point of view, the information presented here does not provide any description of the intangible ties that bind the various social institutions together though it does provide an excellent account of the social and political means used by the Ruanda ruling class to maintain its feudalistic position over a docile population.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2009
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Central Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Government Official
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Robert Lee ; 1959
- Field Date
- ca. 1935
- Coverage Date
- 1935-1941
- Coverage Place
- Rwanda
- Notes
- J. Vanhove
- Translation of: [Essai de Droit coutumier de Ruanda]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Dorothy Crawford in 1959
- LCCN
- ltf91024335
- LCSH
- Ethnology Rwanda