Sally Falk Moore

A study of the difference between law in the life of an African people and in the local courtrooms.

"Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980

Social Facts and Fabrications

Paul Puritt

The Chagga and the Meru are related peoples living on the rich banana-grove and coffee-plantation slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru in Northern Tanzania. While the literature on the Chagga is overwhelmingly large little is generally available on the Meru. This volume, originally published in 1977, provided for the first time a concise, comprehensive and well-documented overview of Chagga society, history and cosmology, drawing not only on the authors’ field work but on the works of the prolific Germans: Gutmann, Raum and others. It also detail original research and uses reports of the famous Meru Land Case to illuminate Meru society and economy and their adjustment in turn to Arusha, German and British colonial, and independent government influences.

East Central Africa

The Chagga and Meru of Tanzania

Barbara G. Myerhoff

Cases and Questions

Symbol and Politics in Communal Ideology

African studies in anthropology throw light on the way Anglo-Europeans and Americans have conceived of the rest of the world and the way academic disciplines have changed in this century.

Sally Falk Moore

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