The Sociological Significance of Ancestor-Worship in Ashanti

Africa ◽  
1930 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 431-471
Author(s):  
Edith Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
The Family ◽  
Religious Dogma ◽  
The One ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
Land Tenure Systems

Opening ParagraphThe Institute has laid down its policy in ethnological matters in the Report of the Executive Council held in Berlin in December, 1928. The Council then came to the conclusion that ‘there was a gap between anthropological science on the one hand and the practical work of education and administration on the other, and that the Institute could render useful service by attempting to bridge this gap’.The following resolution was passed unanimously:‘The Council reaffirms its resolution to encourage studies of African life and institutions, more particularly with reference to such subjects as the family, law, economic life, ideas of land tenure, systems of education, phenomena of change and similar subjects which have a direct bearing on practical work and administration in Africa.It was, I presume, due to an accident of omission that religion does not appear in the list of subjects the study of which is to be encouraged. In Africa, above all ethnographic areas, religious dogma and practice lie at the very core of all aspects of culture, and no study of ‘the family, law, economics, ideas of land tenure, systems of education’ could be adequate that did not start off with an account of native belief. In giving an analysis of Ashanti religion I shall show that this is especially true of that culture.

scholarly journals Prawnokarna ochrona prawidłowego funkcjonowania rodziny

2020 ◽  
pp. 367-380
Author(s):  
Krystyna Szczechowicz
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The Other ◽  
Law System ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One

This article deals with the issue of the scope of protecting marriage and the family in the Polish criminal law system. The family is subject to Chapter 16 of the Polish Criminal Code, which is entitled “Crimes against family and guardianship”. The chapter’s title indicates that family and care are the legal generic good protected by the provisions it contains. However, the legislator’s actions are restrained so as not to interfere too much in the functioning of a family, on the one hand, while, on the other, providing protection for its members. The problem also involves the emotional bond between the perpetrator and the victim, which in many cases leads to non-disclosure of the fact of committing a crime. Criminal law is, in many cases, intended to strengthen civil and family law regulations.

To-Day and To-Morrow, Cultural Studies, and Everyday Life

2019 ◽  
pp. 257-286
Author(s):  
Max Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Family Law ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
Valuation Of Life

Taking up the suggestion at the end of Chapter 4, this one proposes that an important effect of the concerted futurological project was to place a novel emphasis in the series on everyday life; and that this in turn contributed to the development—already in embryo—of cultural and media studies. After a discussion of these emerging disciplines, volumes are analysed dealing with advertising, the press, communication and travel, the home and the family, law, the environment, and leisure. A key volume in this discussion is C. E. M. Joad’s Diogenes; or, The Future of Leisure (1928), which moves wittily between a satire of contemporary pastimes and a consideration—via G. B. Shaw’s ‘metabiological’ suite of plays, Back to Methusaleh, of a possible evolutionary future that informs the one imagined by Bernal. The chapter ends by discussing the volumes on labour and sport, and concluding that the series’ vision of everyday life is one profoundly conditioned by the experience of the recent war as giving a new valuation of life in all its forms.

“The family farms together, the decisions, however are made by the man” —Matrilineal land tenure systems, welfare and decision making in rural Malawi

2018 ◽  
Vol 70 ◽  
pp. 601-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnes Andersson Djurfeldt ◽  
Ellen Hillbom ◽  
Wapulumuka O. Mulwafu ◽  
Peter Mvula ◽  
Göran Djurfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
The Family ◽  
Land Tenure Systems

The Process and Conditionality of Separation

2021 ◽  
pp. 215-248
Author(s):  
Heather Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Family Law ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Violent Relationships ◽  
Law System ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
System P ◽  
The Family ◽  
Single Moment ◽  
The One

This chapter considers women’s dynamic experiences of leaving violent relationships in the shadow of static legal understandings of separation and the ongoing dangers women face when they engage with legal systems and processes. When women are trying to separate, sometimes law is the one thing that keeps bringing them back into contact with their abuser. This chapter highlights women’s experiences of separation as a process and journey rather than a single moment in time. Drawing on the experiences of some of the women in the study, two areas of law where separation underpins the legal response are highlighted: the migration and visa system and the family law system.

‘Legalizing’ the family: disputes about marriage, paternity and divorce in Algerian courts (1963–1990)

2001 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
BETTINA DENNERLEIN
Keyword(s):  
Supreme Court ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Modern State ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
The Family ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

This article is devoted to an analysis of Algerian court cases. It focuses on family law in practice, in order to shed light on the disputed character of this realm of law and the ambiguity involved in its reform. The aim of the article is to question the assumption of an intrinsic opposition between the (traditional/Muslim) family on the one hand, and (modern) state law on the other. It will be argued that the legal regulation of the family, far from being simply imposed by the state, represents a dynamic process in which different actors with different interests and orientations partake. The material used consists mainly of decisions taken by the Algerian Supreme Court covering the period from 1963 (the year of the its creation) to 1990.

Wykładnia celowościowa pojęcia „rodzina”. Glosa krytyczna do Wyroku WSA w Szczecinie z dnia 18 stycznia 2018, II SA/Sz 1199/17

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rakoczy
Keyword(s):  
Financial Support ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Strict Interpretation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of

The commented judgement refers to the kind of interpretation of the term “family” in the scope of its members. The choice of interpretation is necessary for examine of possibility of granting the one-time financial support for the birth of the child. The key problem of the case is the question whether the father who does not stay actually with mother and child contains the family. According to the strict interpretation father belongs to the family and his income should be taken into account. WSA decided to use the teleological definition of family which takes into account only members actually forming family and excluded father from community of family. In that way his income is not subject of verification. According to the author of the commented judgement interpretation preferred by WSA is contra-legem, releases father from his futures duties and presents dangerous corruption of system of family law. The father cannot be excluded from the family in any dimension.

scholarly journals Conflicts in Jewish Families of the Russian Empire as a Consequence of the Maidens’ Leaving the Family and their Baptism (According to Archival and Memoir Sources of the Early 19th Century)

2020 ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Dmitry Feldman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Family Conflicts ◽  
Jewish Family ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The One ◽  
The 19Th Century

Тhe article, based on published and archival sources, is devoted to the problem of Jewish family conflicts occurred in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century due to the daughters’ leaving the family and their baptism. There are non-conflict cases of assimilation of Jewish girls in the article. These girls became representatives of the Russian aristocracy through marriage. It is noted that Jewish family conflicts were the result of more active and close contacts between the Jewesses and non-Jews. They took place during progressive changes in the education and upbringing of children, on the one hand, and the crisis phenomena in the social and economic life of the Russian Jewry at that time, on the other.

Murder with Impunity: The Construction of Arab Masculinities and Honor Crimes

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-45
Author(s):  
May Abu Jaber
Keyword(s):  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Social Boundaries ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Male Authority ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Gender Specific

Violence against women (VAW) continues to exist as a pervasive, structural,systematic, and institutionalized violation of women’s basic human rights (UNDivision of Advancement for Women, 2006). It cuts across the boundaries of age, race, class, education, and religion which affect women of all ages and all backgrounds in every corner of the world. Such violence is used to control and subjugate women by instilling a sense of insecurity that keeps them “bound to the home, economically exploited and socially suppressed” (Mathu, 2008, p. 65). It is estimated that one out of every five women worldwide will be abused during her lifetime with rates reaching up to 70 percent in some countries (WHO, 2005). Whether this abuse is perpetrated by the state and its agents, by family members, or even by strangers, VAW is closely related to the regulation of sexuality in a gender specific (patriarchal) manner. This regulation is, on the one hand, maintained through the implementation of strict cultural, communal, and religious norms, and on the other hand, through particular legal measures that sustain these norms. Therefore, religious institutions, the media, the family/tribe, cultural networks, and the legal system continually disciplinewomen’s sexuality and punish those women (and in some instances men) who have transgressed or allegedly contravened the social boundaries of ‘appropriateness’ as delineated by each society. Such women/men may include lesbians/gays, women who appear ‘too masculine’ or men who appear ‘too feminine,’ women who try to exercise their rights freely or men who do not assert their rights as ‘real men’ should, women/men who have been sexually assaulted or raped, and women/men who challenge male/older male authority.

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