Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity : the Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation /
Explores the relationships between matrilineal, Islamic and state law and investigates the dynamics of legal pluralism, governance and property relationships.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change
- The pre-colonial nagari
- Minangkabau under colonial government
- Japanese occupation, independence and post-colonial transformation until 1983
- Centralised government at its zenith
- Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy
- Creating new nagari structures
- The return to the nagari: smooth transitions
- Uneasy transformations
- Governing the village
- New dynamics in property rights
- Never ending disputes
- Property law reconstituted, uncertainty perpetuated
- Old issues revisited: Adat, Islam and Minangkabau identity politics
- Decentralisation, the transformation of the nagari and the dynamics of legal pluralism: some conclusions.
