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THE KPELLE MOOT (The following article is from Applying Anthropology, An Introductory Reader, Third Edition, 1994, by Aaron Podolefsky and Peter J. Brown where it is reprinted from James L. Gibbs, "The Kpelle Moot," Africa, vol. 33, No. 1, 1963.) Africa as a major culture area has been characterized by many writers as being marked by a high development of law and legal procedures. In the past few years research on African law has produced a series of highly competent monographs such as t ...