Beneath the Volcano is the first major account of the Nage, a people inhabiting the central part of Flores in eastern Indonesia. The book focuses on Nage ideas concerning spiritual beings and how these influence both ritual practices and ideas about human beings. Ideas about relations between Nage humans and several kinds of spirits are also shown to be governed by a pervasive principle of symm…
The book documents and analyses the many forms of racism that indigenous peoples all over the world are still facing at the beginning of the new millennium. Although many national constitutions prohibit racial discrimination, indigenous peoples are facing pervasive racial discrimination in their daily lives, which has farreaching consequences for their well-being and human rights situation. It …
This is a short and succinct summary of the unique position of Roman law in European culture by a leading legal historian. Peter Stein's masterly study assesses the impact of Roman law in the ancient world and its continued unifying influence throughout medieval and modern Europe. Roman Law in European History is unparalleled in range, lucidity and authority, and should prove of enormous utilit…
Westerners seldom appreciate the array of competing reli- gious and social norms among which Muslims must navigate. Bowen skillfully demonstrates that for these Indonesians the quest for meaning among alternative legal and practical values is at the very heart of the tension between local practice and universal faith. His cogent examples and superb eye for their surround bring home with great p…
Salah satu inti dari unsur-unsur hukum adat guna pembinaan hukum waris nasional adalah hukum waris adat. Oleh karenanya bahan-bahan hukum waris adat perlu diketengahkan dengan jalan melakukan penelitian kepustakaan yang ada maupun penelitian dilapangan untuk dapat mengetahui apakah dari berbagai sistem dan azas hukum waris adat yang terdapat di seluruh wawasan nusantara ini dapat dicari titik t…
The introduction to this English translation of a selection from Van Vollenhoven's study of indigenous Indonesian law outlines the historical significance of his work, showing its background in the complex administrative and legal system of the Dutch East Indies, the trends in Dutch colonial legal and economic policy, and the development of adat law scholarship from the early 1900s onwards. The…
Sosiologi Hukum adalah salah satu cabang kajian ilmu pengetahuan sosial yang sejak pertengahan abad 19 - dirintis oleh para teoritisi seperti Karl Marx, Henry Maine, Emile Durkheim dan Max Weber memasuki ranah kajian-kajian tentang hukum, dengan pendekatan yang bersifat lebih empirik-kontekstual daripada normatif-tekstual. Sejak abad 20 - dirintis oleh ahli-ahli hukum semisal Oliver Wendel Holm…
This document contains in compact form the outputs of the very first conference and so far the largest gathering of planners, managers, implementers, participants, beneficiaries, and even those opposed to protected areas in the Philippines.
Inti dari subyek kaedah Adat Laot dan Leuen Pukat adalah kaum nelayan bersama kemampuan yang dimiliki mereka, berupa pengetahuan alat tangkap, pengelolaan sumber hayati laut dan mampu menjaga kelestarian sumber potensi yang tersedia di alam bebas. Melalui ekspansi yang mereka lakukan dan eksplorasi usaha sanggup dijalankan, tidak akan muncul kekhawatiran berlebihan asalkan mereka diberi ruan pe…
Part of the problem in defining folk law adequately stems from the lack of clarity surrounding the term "folk." In its original nineteenth-century sense, it referred to the illiterate in a literate society, that is, people who could not read or write who lived in a society that had a written language. In effect, folk meant peasant, European peasant in particular. Accordingly, a folk society was…