Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity : the Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation / / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society
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| Physical Description: | xxiii, 499 p. :; ill., maps. |
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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.