Substantial Justice

An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19902010
AutoresM Goddard (0000-0002-7882-2464, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Fecha de publicación2022-12-31
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaSubstantial Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781845459222
OpenAlexW1483983234
Open LibraryOL38661996M
ISBN9781845459222
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. This anthropological study is grounded in ethnographic research on three different village courts and the communities they serve. It also explores the colonial historical background to the establishment of the village court system, and the local and global processes influencing the efforts of village courts to deal with everyday disputes among grassroots Melanesians

Colonialism · Economic Justice · Ethnology · New guinea · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Law · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Courts · District courts · Europe · Papua new guinea · Social conditions