Morality Plays: Marriage, Church Courts, and Colonial Agency in Central Tanganyika, ca. 1876–1928

Nineteenth century Tanganyika was a place of uncertain environments and uneven opportunities. Anglican missionaries used record books and marriage certificates to define marriage as a contract authorized by God, thus allowing them to punish extramarital sex as adultery, but litigants learned to use...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American historical review 2006-10, Vol.111 (4), p.983-1010
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