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Author Drummond, Susan G. (Susan Gay), 1959-

Title Incorporating the familiar : an investigation into legal sensibilities in Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond
Published Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Contents Circuit court/circus court -- Toponymy and its objects -- The children under the bed -- Lovers and healing circles -- Circuit/circus/circle -- Agents of justice/agents of love
Summary "Exploring the quandaries of intercultural communication and contemplating how diverse legal sensibilities might be mutually recognized, Incorporating the Familiar evokes the possibilities and limits of intercultural accommodation. Susan Drummond explores a series of philosophic, ethnographic and legal dilemmas produced by the interaction between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal legal cultures, setting up a dialogue between narrative and theory by interspersing accounts of her field experiences in Inuit communities with analytical chapters." "In the first section she addresses problems of delivery of justice among Inuit communities and explores the cultural determinacy of understanding. In the second section she focuses on the problem of family violence and the complexities to which it gives rise in rendering justice in Inuit communities. In the third section she provides an ethnographic account of Nunavik's first sentencing circle, underlining her contention that juridical rule emerge from the habits and forms of a society."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index
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Subject Inuit -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
Justice, Administration of -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
Ethnological jurisprudence.
Culture conflict -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
HISTORY -- Native American.
Culture conflict
Ethnological jurisprudence
Inuit -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Justice, Administration of
Eskimo's.
Cultuur.
Filosofische aspecten.
Juridische aspecten.
Inuits -- Canada -- Nord-du-Québec (Canada) -- Moeurs et coutumes.
Inuits -- Statut juridique -- Canada -- Nord-du-Québec (Canada)
Justice -- Administration -- Canada -- Nord-du-Québec (Canada)
Québec -- Nunavik
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773566903
0773566902