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Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society
Peter Just
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Description for Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society
hardcover. This monograph about justice and morality among the Dou Donggo, a highland people in Indonesia, offers a means of understanding the workings of law and dispute settlement in small communities. It provides contextualizing material on current debates about ethnography and the anthropology of law. Num Pages: 288 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1FMN; JFC; JHM; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 562.
This study of justice and morality among the Dou Donggo, a highland people in Indonesia, offers an innovative approach to understanding the workings of law and dispute settlement in small communities. Peter Just argues that the operation of any legal system is best understood in the context of its moral ontology: the fundamental culture assumptions that the people have about the nature of the world, the beings that inhabit it, and their relationships to one another, as well as ideas about causation, liability, etc. The author takes Dou Donggo beliefs in evil spirits and tutelary gods, theories of conception and ... Read more
This study of justice and morality among the Dou Donggo, a highland people in Indonesia, offers an innovative approach to understanding the workings of law and dispute settlement in small communities. Peter Just argues that the operation of any legal system is best understood in the context of its moral ontology: the fundamental culture assumptions that the people have about the nature of the world, the beings that inhabit it, and their relationships to one another, as well as ideas about causation, liability, etc. The author takes Dou Donggo beliefs in evil spirits and tutelary gods, theories of conception and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847683277
SKU
V9780847683277
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About Peter Just
Peter Just is associate professor of anthropology at Williams College.
Reviews for Dou Donggo Justice: Conflict and Morality in an Indonesian Society
Just writes clearly and offers engaging accounts of his own experiences in the field, along with the detailed study of Dou Donggo society. All academic collections.
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...a significant contribution to the anthropology of emotional discourse. The book deserves to be praised for its fine ethnographic descriptions, and for revealing the underlying moral philosophy of a legal ... Read more
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...a significant contribution to the anthropology of emotional discourse. The book deserves to be praised for its fine ethnographic descriptions, and for revealing the underlying moral philosophy of a legal ... Read more