TY - MANSCPT AU - Murphy, William P. TI - Political and legal use of ambiguity in Mende historical discourse KW - Culture and law KW - Civilization \H istory N1 - Paid up registered users; AR/MISR/33/2/4 N2 - This paper was originally written for the land, law and oral history session of the 1983 annual meeting of the American Society of Ethnohis tory ER -