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Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

By Michael Goddard

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2009
ISBN
9781845459222
DOI
10.1515/9781845459222
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
844 kB (864596 bytes)
Pages
334\332
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:58:49

Description

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians.

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