Grassroots Law in Papua New Guinea.
The introduction of village courts in Papua New Guinea in 1975 was an ambitious experiment in providing semi-formal legal access to the country's overwhelmingly rural population. Nearly 50 years later, the enthusiastic adoption of these courts has had a number of ramifications, some of them una...
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| Superior document: | Monographs in Anthropology Series |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Canberra : : ANU Press,, 2023. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in Anthropology Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The magic of the court / Melissa Demian. Part I. Village courts and non-courts in action. 1. Legal consciousness and the predicament of village courts in a 'weak state': Internalisation of external authority in the New Guinea Highlands / Hiroki Fukagawa ; 2. Following an adultery case beyond the court: The making of legal consciousness in and around Nadzab Village Court, Markham River Valley / Juliane Neuhaus ; 3. 'Making kastam full' in the Sepik: The Awim village court as a spectral gift of shells / Tomi Bartole ; 4. Unmaking a village court: The invisible workings of an alternative dispute forum / Eve Houghton
- Part II: The courts, the law and the Papua New Guinean state. 5. Keeping the sky up: Papua New Guinea's village courts in the age of capacity building / Michael Goddard ; 6. Collapsing the scales of law / Melissa Demian ; 7. A system that allows people to say sorry: An interview with Fiona Hukula / Transcribed and edited by Camila F Marinelli and Melissa Demian.