The future of tradition : customary law, common law, and legal pluralism /
"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 analy...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Portland, OR :
F. Cass,
2000
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| 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."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 512 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 487-497) and index |
| ISBN: | 0714649538 9780714649535 0714680125 9780714680125 |