Legal Pluralism in Central Asia: Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices

ISBN-13: 9781138551763 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 238 str.

Mahabat Sadyrbek

Opis

The process of “modernization” in Central Asian countries tends to be viewed as a process of moving away from “outdated approaches”, with most scholars focusing on what needs to be done to “modernize”, with traditional approaches not being taken very seriously. This book, on the contrary, based on extensive original research in Kyrgyzstan, examines customary legal practices and relates them to wider societal developments in Central Asia and further afield. It examines how a range of problems including violence, accidents and crimes are dealt with and redress, including punishment and compensation, provided. Overall, the book demonstrates that there is a spectrum of approaches, which can be labelled “legal pluralism”; and that traditional approaches are highly effective and by no means redundant.

Spis treści

PART ONE Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: Legal Pluralism in Kyrgyzstan, Chapter 3: Social Structure and Agency, PART TWO Chapter 4: Concept of Apology and Forgiveness, Chapter 5: Mediation and Negotiation , Chapter 6: Making Amends and Kun-Giving PART THREE Chapter 7: The State as the Main Form of Ordering , Chapter 8: Eldik sot – People’s Law, Chapter 9: Islam as a Reference, CONCLUSION

O autorze

Mahabat Sadyrbek is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.