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The future of tradition : customary law, common law, and legal pluralism / Leon Sheleff.
2000
M 150 SHE.F
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Title
The future of tradition : customary law, common law, and legal pluralism / Leon Sheleff.
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Description
viii, 512 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
0714649538 cloth
9780714649535 cloth
0714680125 paperback
9780714680125 paperback
9780203044995 e-book
9781136326158 e-book
9780714649535 cloth
0714680125 paperback
9780714680125 paperback
9780203044995 e-book
9781136326158 e-book
Alternate Call Number
M 150 SHE.F
Summary
"This book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, and focuses on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty; legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life." "Recent judicial decisions are analyzed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-497) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Custom-made law; 2. Pluralism in the modern world; 3. Tribalism-vague but valid; 4. Whither the state?; 5. Customary law as common law; 6. The invention of discovery; 7. Between recognition and repugnancy?; 8. The right to group rights; 9. Belonging and identity; 10. The local tribe in the global village; 11. The trials of tribal courts; 12. Land is forever; 13. Holy rites and sacred sites; 14. A reasonable 'cultural' defense; 15. From harm to harmony; 16. For shame; 17. Family matters; 18. Women and children first; 19. Proving the customary rule; 20. Academic questions; 21. Accounting for the past; 22. Beyond the law; 23. History in the making; 24. Community in society.
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London : Routledge, Publisher, 2000.
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English
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"This book offers a comprehensive survey of various aspects of tribal life, and focuses on political issues such as the meaning of sovereignty; legal issues dealing with the role of custom and social issues concerned with sustaining communal life." "Recent judicial decisions are analyzed as a reflection of the far-reaching changes that have taken place, in a process that has seen the disregard of basic rights of indigenous people being replaced by an awareness of the injustices perpetrated in the past and a willingness to seek to redress them."--Jacket.