Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity [electronic resource] : the Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation / Franz von Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von Benda-Beckmann.
By: Benda-Beckmann, Franz von.
Contributor(s): Benda-Beckmann, Keebet von | ProQuest (Firm).
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BookSeries: Cambridge studies in law and society. Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013Description: xxiii, 499 p. : ill., maps.Subject(s): Minangkabau (Indonesian people) -- Politics and government | Minangkabau (Indonesian people) -- Legal status, laws, etc | Minangkabau (Indonesian people) -- History | Indonesia -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 323.1199/2244 Online resources: Click to View | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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