Substantial Justice : : An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea / / Michael Goddard.

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (334 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Colonial Law: An Extended Prelude to the Village Courts
  • 2. The Administration of Village Courts
  • 3. Village Courts on Trial
  • 4. Three Village Courts and Their Social Environments
  • 5. Village Court Politics
  • 6. Pari Village Court in Action
  • 7. Konedobu Village Court in Action
  • 8. Erima Village Court in Action
  • 9. Between Groups and Individuals
  • Conclusion: The Local and the Global
  • Appendix: The Official Range of Offences Heard by Village Courts
  • References
  • Index