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Incorporating the familiar : an investigation into legal sensibilities in Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Drummond, Susan G. (Susan Gay), 1959-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Inuit--Legal status, laws, etc--Quebec (Province)--Nunavik.
- Inuit.
- Justice, Administration of--Quebec (Province)--Nunavik.
- Justice, Administration of.
- Inuit--Quebec (Province)--Nunavik--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drummond explores a series of philosophic, ethnographic, and legal dilemmas produced by the interaction between legal cultures, setting up a dialogue between narrative and theory by interspersing accounts of her field experiences in Inuit communities with analytical chapters. In the first section she addresses problems of delivery of justice among Inuit communities and explores the cultural determinacy of understanding. In the second section she focuses on the problem of family violence and the complexities to which it gives rise in rendering justice in Inuit communities. In the third section she provides an ethnographic account of Nunavik's first sentencing circle, underlining her contention that juridical rules emerge from the habits and forms of a society. Exploring the quandaries of intercultural communication and contemplating how diverse legal sensibilities might be mutually recognized, Incorporating the Familiar evokes the possibilities and limits of intercultural accommodation.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Circuit Court/ Circus Court
- Introduction
- Toponymy and Its Objects
- The Children under the Bed
- Lovers and Healing Circles
- Circuit/Circus/Circle
- Agents of Justice/ Agents of Love
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85480-1
- 9786612854804
- 0-7735-6690-2
- OCLC:
- 181843636
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