Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity : the Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benda-Beckmann, Franz von, author.

Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von, author.

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:

1 online resource (xxiii, 499 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Political & Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

System Details:

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Summary:

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity is a long-term study of the historical transformations of the Minangkabau polity of nagari, property relations and the ever-changing dynamic relationships between Minangkabau matrilineal adat law, Islamic law and state law. While the focus is on the period since the fall of President Suharto in 1998, the book charts a long history of political and legal transformations before and after Indonesia's independence, in which the continuities are as notable as the changes. It also throws light on the transnational processes through which legal and political ideas spread and acquire new meanings. The multi-temporal historical approach adopted is also relevant to the more general discussions of the relationship between anthropology and history, the creation of customary law, identity construction, and the anthropology of colonialism.

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.

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ISBN:

9781139839082

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