The Indonesian term adat means 'custom; or 'tradition', and carries connotations of sedate order and harmony
This book is also about history and about religion, and these, as well, are matters too important to be left to the specialist.
When the first learned societies dealing with cross-national legal comparisons were established in France, Germany, and England in the Late Nine-Teenth Century, their founders took for granted that comparative methods would advance the under standing of a broad range of legal issues
This book, the product of long familiarity with the forest nomads, will, i hope, dispel some of those culturally derogatory clices that keep our consciences quiet