| Description |
1 online resource (251 pages) |
| Series |
Central Asian Studies |
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Central Asian studies.
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| Contents |
Part, Part I -- chapter 1 Introduction / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 2 Legal pluralism in Kyrgyzstan / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 3 Social structure and agency / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- part, Part II / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 4 Concept of apology and forgiveness / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 5 Mediation and negotiation / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 6 Making amends and kun-giving / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- part, Part III -- chapter 7 The state as the main form of ordering / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 8 Eldik sot -- people's law / Mahabat Sadyrbek -- chapter 9 Islam as a reference / Mahabat Sadyrbek |
| Summary |
"Legal Pluralism in Central Asia reports on historical, anthropological and legal research which examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and relates them to wider societal developments in Central Asia and further afield. Using the term legal pluralism, the book demonstrates that there is a spectrum of approaches, available avenues, forms of local law and indigenous popular justice in Kyrgyzstan's predominantly rural communities, which can be labelled living law. Based on her extensive original research, Mahabat Sadyrbek shows how contemporary peoples systematically address challenging problems, such as disputes, violence, accidents, crime and other difficulties, and thereby seek justice, redress, punishment, compensation, readjustment of relations or closure. She demonstrates that local law, expressed through ritually structured communicative exchange, through dictums and proverbs with binding characters and different legal practices or processes undertaken in specific ways, deem the solutions appropriate and acceptable. The reader is thereby enabled to see the law in people's deepest assumptions and beliefs, in codes of shame and honour, in local mores and ethics as well as in religious terms. In this way, the book reveals the dynamic, changing and living character of law in a specific context and in a region hitherto insufficiently researched within legal anthropology."--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Legal polycentricity -- Asia, Central
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Customary law -- Asia, Central
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Legal polycentricity -- Kyrgyzstan
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Customary law -- Kyrgyzstan
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LAW -- Customary.
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Customary law
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Legal polycentricity
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Central Asia
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Kyrgyzstan
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351375481 |
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1351375482 |
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9781315147772 |
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1315147777 |
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