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Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity : the Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.
Penn Museum Library DS632.M4 B46 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Politics and government.
- Minangkabau (Indonesian people).
- Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Minangkabau (Indonesian people)--History.
- History.
- Indonesia--Politics and government--20th century.
- Indonesia.
- Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 499 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change
- The pre-colonial nagari
- Minangkabau under colonial government
- Japanese occupation, independence and post-colonial transformation until 1983
- Centralised government at its zenith
- Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy
- Creating new nagari structures
- The return to the nagari: smooth transitions
- Uneasy transformations
- Governing the village
- New dynamics in property rights
- Never ending disputes
- Property law reconstituted, uncertainty perpetuated
- Old issues revisited: Adat, Islam and Minangkabau identity politics
- Decentralisation, the transformation of the nagari and the dynamics of legal pluralism: some conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107038592
- 1107038596
- OCLC:
- 830205576
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