Ethnology, Volume 29University of Pittsburgh, 1990 - Anthropology |
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Page 19
For the most part, however, there was very little interaction between traditional
remedy agents and the introduced courts. Local Court Magistrates were outsiders
who did not understand local customs. Hearings generally were held in concrete
...
For the most part, however, there was very little interaction between traditional
remedy agents and the introduced courts. Local Court Magistrates were outsiders
who did not understand local customs. Hearings generally were held in concrete
...
Page 77
Before we had good kinds of customs; if people came around and we had friends
we gave them food and things and now the law also has good customs and I will
explain them. Now the law is on top like the roof of a house. It's like when you ...
Before we had good kinds of customs; if people came around and we had friends
we gave them food and things and now the law also has good customs and I will
explain them. Now the law is on top like the roof of a house. It's like when you ...
Page 238
Bedouin tribesmen participate in their nomadic and seminomadic worlds not as
passive subjects bound totally to the dictates of lineage ideology and tradition.
They do not obey customs "slavishly', 'unwittingly' and 'spontaneously', through ...
Bedouin tribesmen participate in their nomadic and seminomadic worlds not as
passive subjects bound totally to the dictates of lineage ideology and tradition.
They do not obey customs "slavishly', 'unwittingly' and 'spontaneously', through ...
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Contents
Legal Adaptation in a Papua New Guinea Village Court | 17 |
Big Men Big Women and Cultural Autonomy Maria Lepowsky | 35 |
The Spatial Anchoring of Myth | 51 |
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