Legal Pluralism in Central Asia

Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices

Mahabat Sadyrbek (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

250 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-55176-3 (ISBN)

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Legal Pluralism in Central Asia reports on historical, anthropological and legal research which examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and relates them to wider societal developments in Central Asia and further afield. Using the term legal pluralism, the book demonstrates that there is a spectrum of approaches, available avenues, forms of local law and indigenous popular justice in Kyrgyzstan’s predominantly rural communities, which can be labelled living law. Based on her extensive original research, Mahabat Sadyrbek shows how contemporary peoples systematically address challenging problems, such as disputes, violence, accidents, crime and other difficulties, and thereby seek justice, redress, punishment, compensation, readjustment of relations or closure. She demonstrates that local law, expressed through ritually structured communicative exchange, through dictums and proverbs with binding characters and different legal practices or processes undertaken in specific ways, deem the solutions appropriate and acceptable. The reader is thereby enabled to see the law in people’s deepest assumptions and beliefs, in codes of shame and honour, in local mores and ethics as well as in religious terms. In this way, the book reveals the dynamic, changing and living character of law in a specific context and in a region hitherto insufficiently researched within legal anthropology.

Mahabat Sadyrbek is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.

PART ONE Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Legal Pluralism in Kyrgyzstan, Chapter 3: Social Structure and Agency, PART TWO Chapter 4: Concept of Apology and Forgiveness, Chapter 5: Mediation and Negotiation , Chapter 6: Making Amends and Kun-Giving PART THREE Chapter 7: The State as the Main Form of Ordering , Chapter 8: Eldik sot – People’s Law, Chapter 9: Islam as a Reference, CONCLUSION

Erscheinungsdatum	30.04.2018
Reihe/Serie	Central Asian Studies
Zusatzinfo	1 Line drawings, black and white; 22 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-138-55176-7 / 1138551767
ISBN-13	978-1-138-55176-3 / 9781138551763
Zustand	Neuware