Para pengamat atau pakar hukum yang bersikap terlalu formal- legalistik seringkali merasa kecewa karena dalam kenyataannya apa yang tertulis sebagai hukum seringkali kalah oleh keputusan-keputusan politik. Hukum kemudian dijadikan instrumen untuk memberi pembenaran formal atas keinginan- keinginan politik penguasa. Tepatnya hukum seringkali diintervensi oleh kekuasaan politik. Itulah yang terja…
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…
Since the late 1980a i have thought occasionally of developing what i have called The Law of Peoples. I first chose the nama Peoples rather than Nations or States because i wanted to conceive of peoples as having different features from those of states
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…
This is an outstanding collection of essays that explores the cultural creation of legal meaning. Originally published in Representations, these articles exemplify the growing trend toward the interdisciplinary study of law, addressing developments like feminist jurisprudence, critical legal studies, and hermeneutic theory. Contributors to the volume discuss such central questions as the constr…
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