id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt kd17cr59r7v Emily Maiden Beware the Magic Crocodile: The Role of Chiefs in Cultural and Political Reform in Malawi 2019 .txt text/plain 298 8 35 I find that the dual positionality of chiefs as both political and cultural actors, invested with high levels of trust and support from their communities, contributes to their ability to address culturally embedded practices like child marriage, which actively promote violence against children. But chiefs are—paradoxically, many argue—taking their advocacy a step further by using their authority as the custodians of culture to address and reform the underlying cultural norms and practices that make child marriage acceptable. cache/kd17cr59r7v.txt txt/kd17cr59r7v.txt