The Future of Tradition
Subtitle: Customary Law, Common Law and Legal Pluralism
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: January 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 520
ISBN-13: 9780714649535
Subjects: Ethnography; Indigenous peoples; Jurisprudence & General Issues; Political control & freedoms; Law Systems; Politics / Current Events; Social life and customs; Law; Legal polycentricity; Government - Comparative; Political Science / General; General; Conflict of Laws; Customary law; Legal status, laws, etc
Description: "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.