Substantial justice : an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea /
"Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background of the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians." |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781845459222 1845459229 |