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Substantial justice : an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea
- Title
- Substantial justice : an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard.
- Author
- Goddard, Michael (Michael Bruce)
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | KWH334 .G63 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "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."
- Subject
- District courts > Papua New Guinea
- Customary law courts > Papua New Guinea > National Capital District
- Customary law > Papua New Guinea > National Capital District
- Dispute resolution (Law) > Papua New Guinea > National Capital District
- Law and anthropology
- Customary law
- Customary law courts
- Dispute resolution (Law)
- District courts
- Law and anthropology
- Social conditions
- Rechtsethnologie
- Rechtssystem
- Bauerngericht
- Gericht
- Dorf
- Gericht
- Rechtsprechung
- Rechtsanthropologie
- justice > village > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
- National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) > Social conditions
- Papua New Guinea
- Papua New Guinea > National Capital District
- Papua-Neuguinea
- Papua-Neuguinea
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Colonial law : an extended prelude to the village courts -- The administration of village courts -- Village courts on trial -- Three village courts and their social environments -- Village court politics -- Pari village court in action -- Konedobu village court in action -- Erima village court in action -- Between groups and individuals.
- ISBN
- 9781845455613
- 1845455614
- LCCN
- 2008053752
- OCLC
- ocn255894599
- 255894599
- SCSB-8933905
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library