Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 78596 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann |
| PRENOMES | Keebet |
| SOBRENOME | Von Benda-Beckmann |
| ASSINATURA | VON BENDA-BECKMANN K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9807-570X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 84 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Dynamics of Identification and Conflict
Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…
Trajectories of legal entanglement examples from Indonesia, Nepal, and Thailand
Globalization comes with law and law comes with actors. The manner in which law travels is rarely a matter of straightforward reception, but involves processes of translation, adjustment, and capturing by a diverse range of actors. This paper looks at some systemic features of legal pluralism to pursue two aims. One is to show that Southeast Asia has centuries long histories in which religious and secular laws have become entangled with local leg…
Aimar ventsel 2020 punks and skins
What have punks and skins to do with legal pluralism? This is one of the issues that Aimar Ventsel addresses in his remarkable study of punks and skins, situated in the medium-sized town of Halle i
Anachronism, Agency, and the Contextualisation of Adat
This article discusses the conceptual and analytical contributions of the Dutch scholar Cornelis van Vollenhoven to the study of Indonesian adat law. He argued from a politically inspired concern about gross colonial exploitation in the Dutch East Indies that this was based on flawed understandings of local legal orders. This stimulated him to design a conceptual framework to capture the characteristics of these legal orders, called adat law. His…
Legal pluralism, social theory, and the state
Legal pluralism has seen a marked rise in interest since the turn of the century. While long rejected in legal studies, legal pluralism is now widely accepted, not least in light of the broad range of perspectives on the state it has sought to interpret and it has produced. A crucial change could be noted in the 1970s, when legal anthropologists began to demonstrate the applicability of this term, and not just in anthropological thinking about la…
In memoriam Professor Gordon Roger Woodman 1937–2017
In memoriam Professor Gordon Roger Woodman, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Law, Dr jur. h.c. (University of Bayreuth), D. Litt. h.c. (University of Ghana), MV (Member of the Order of the Volta
Mobile People, Mobile Law
Rules of Law and Laws of Ruling
Spatializing Law
Religion in Disputes
Social Security, Personhood, and the State
This paper looks at the relationship between personhood and the state by taking a relational perspective both on the concept of personhood and on that of the state, and with a focus on social security. It presents a broad concept of social security. Based on research in the Moluccas of East Indonesia, and among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands, it is explained how social security shapes personhood in situations in which the state is only a mi…
Places That Come and Go
Stategraphy
In the introduction to this special issue, we discuss recent trends in anthropological research on and in theorizing the state. We show how these have given rise to an analytical gap between state images, on the one hand, and practices, on the other. Based on this analysis, we propose a relational approach that we call 'stategraphy' as a way to tie together state practices and representations. This ethnographically grounded approach focuses on re…
Temporalities in property relations under a plural legal order
A temporal perspective is critical for understanding how communities handle changes and continuities in property relations under conditions of legal pluralism. It provides crucial clues on property relations upon the death of property holders and on how concretized property relationships are maintained in social relationships between concrete property holders and objects. This paper inquires into entanglements of distinct property regimes valid a…
Trust and the temporalities of law
With a strong focus on social practices under plural legal conditions, the papers in this volume discuss how people operate within the various temporalities of law. The papers show that the competence to navigate the complex web of temporalities and legal orders is highly unequally distributed. Most papers in this volume testify to the stratifying implications of time when asymmetrically instrumentalised within the context of these social practic…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
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 I…
Religion in Disputes
Islamic Law in a Plural Context
The paper deals with the historical dynamics of the struggle over inheritance law in West Sumatra under the colonial rule of the Dutch Indies. The Minangkabau in West Sumatra are an interesting example of legal pluralism in Muslim societies. Their adat (indigenous law and social organisation) of matrilineal heritage regulated kinship, group affiliation, inheritance of property, and succession to office. Since the sixteenth century they have been …
Identity in dispute
The article explores the comparatively peaceful reconstitution of the relationships between law, religion and identification processes among the Minangkabau in West Sumatra, Indonesia, since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998. The local reorganization of village government and land claims included the revitalization of adat institutions which in turn provoked a reconsideration of the role of Islam, as indeed of the meaning of ‘being Minangkab…
Myths and stereotypes about adat law
Recent analyses of the 'revitalisation of tradition' have rekindled earlier discussions of the 'creation of customary law' in colonial states. For Indonesia, critics have deconstructed a 'myth of adat', arguing that adat law was an invention of the adat law scholar Van Vollenhoven and his followers. The assessment of that period also shapes interpretations of developments in Indonesia after 1998. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that i…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
1. Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change 2. The pre-colonial nagari 3. Minangkabau under colonial government 4. Japanese occupation, independence and postcolonial transformation until 1983 5. Centralised government at its zenith 6. Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy 7. Creating new nagari structures 8. The return to the nagari: smooth transitions 9. Uneasy transformations 10. Governing the vil…
Multiple Embeddedness and Systemic Implications
Order and Disorder
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Order and Disorder
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Changing Properties of Property
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those rec…
Myths and stereotypes about adat law
Recent analyses of the 'revitalisation of tradition' have rekindled earlier discussions of the 'creation of customary law' in colonial states. For Indonesia, critics have deconstructed a 'myth of adat', arguing that adat law was an invention of the adat law scholar Van Vollenhoven and his followers. The assessment of that period also shapes interpretations of developments in Indonesia after 1998. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that i…
Between Kinship and the State. Social Security and Law in Developing Countries
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Trust and the temporalities of law
With a strong focus on social practices under plural legal conditions, the papers in this volume discuss how people operate within the various temporalities of law. The papers show that the competence to navigate the complex web of temporalities and legal orders is highly unequally distributed. Most papers in this volume testify to the stratifying implications of time when asymmetrically instrumentalised within the context of these social practic…
Social Security, Personhood, and the State
This paper looks at the relationship between personhood and the state by taking a relational perspective both on the concept of personhood and on that of the state, and with a focus on social security. It presents a broad concept of social security. Based on research in the Moluccas of East Indonesia, and among Moluccan migrants in the Netherlands, it is explained how social security shapes personhood in situations in which the state is only a mi…
Property, Politics, and Conflict
This essay focuses on factors internal to the organization of social life in two regions of Indonesia to explain differences in patterns of dispute management that occur despite similarities in forums, substantive property categories, and types of disputes-primarily over inheritance and property rights in land. In Minangkabau, where disputes are usually phrased in terms of inherited property, are concerned with the status of land, and are more li…
Anthropology of Law in the Netherlands
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 408 - 408
Anachronism, Agency, and the Contextualisation of Adat
This article discusses the conceptual and analytical contributions of the Dutch scholar Cornelis van Vollenhoven to the study of Indonesian adat law. He argued from a politically inspired concern about gross colonial exploitation in the Dutch East Indies that this was based on flawed understandings of local legal orders. This stimulated him to design a conceptual framework to capture the characteristics of these legal orders, called adat law. His…
Multiple Embeddedness and Systemic Implications
Trajectories of legal entanglement examples from Indonesia, Nepal, and Thailand
Globalization comes with law and law comes with actors. The manner in which law travels is rarely a matter of straightforward reception, but involves processes of translation, adjustment, and capturing by a diverse range of actors. This paper looks at some systemic features of legal pluralism to pursue two aims. One is to show that Southeast Asia has centuries long histories in which religious and secular laws have become entangled with local leg…
Islamic Law in a Plural Context
The paper deals with the historical dynamics of the struggle over inheritance law in West Sumatra under the colonial rule of the Dutch Indies. The Minangkabau in West Sumatra are an interesting example of legal pluralism in Muslim societies. Their adat (indigenous law and social organisation) of matrilineal heritage regulated kinship, group affiliation, inheritance of property, and succession to office. Since the sixteenth century they have been …
Forum Shopping and Shopping Forums
(1981). Forum Shopping and Shopping Forums: Dispute Processing in a Minangkabau Village in West Sumatra. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 13, No. 19, pp. 117-159
Traditional values in a non‐traditional context
(1982). Traditional values in a non‐traditional context: Adat and state courts in west Sumatra. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 10, No. 27, pp. 39-50
The Social Significance of Minangkabau State Court Decisions
Anthropology of Law in the Netherlands
VRÜ Verfassung und Recht in Übersee , Seite 408 - 408
De testamenten van Hasan Suleiman; Grondenrechtenkwesties op Islamitisch Ambon
A source-critical or tradition-historical approach to the Genesis Apocryphon will quite justifiably emphasize the features of the Apocryphon that point toward what can be described as its lack of compositional unity. There exists, however, a level on which the Apocryphon can be shown to be a whole; that is its narrative unity. The latter is the result of the ways in which the final author/composer organized and manipulated the sources and traditi…
Introduction
Comment on Simon and Lynch
themes, problems, and gaps in one's own scientific field, the sociology of law, and yet hardly recognize it. This is precisely what happened to me upon reading Rita Simon and James Lynch's contribution to this issue. Since I do not suppose that they have consciously omitted some important parts, I began to wonder how this difference in perception was possible. Why should my own conception of the field be so different from theirs? Could it be that…
Development, Law and Gender-Skewing
(1990). Development, Law and Gender-Skewing. The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: Vol. 23, No. 30-31, pp. 87-120
Between Kinship and the State. Social Security and Law in Developing Countries
Law and Politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America" analyses legal and constitutional developments in all states or regions outside of Europe as well as their regional and international integration. Founded in 1968 and inspired by decolonization and the idea of a cooperative new beginning, the Journal also promotes a special interest in contributions on 'Law and development'. The journal aims to provide a forum for a variety of perspectives on th…
Property, Politics, and Conflict
This essay focuses on factors internal to the organization of social life in two regions of Indonesia to explain differences in patterns of dispute management that occur despite similarities in forums, substantive property categories, and types of disputes-primarily over inheritance and property rights in land. In Minangkabau, where disputes are usually phrased in terms of inherited property, are concerned with the status of land, and are more li…
Changing Properties of Property
As an important contribution to debates on property theory and the role of law in creating, disputing, defining and refining property rights, this volume provides new theoretical material on property systems, as well as new empirically grounded case studies of the dynamics of property transformations. The property claimants discussed in these papers represent a diverse range of actors, including post-socialist states and their citizens, those rec…
Changing Properties of Property
Order and Disorder
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Order and Disorder
Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime. Such considerations have prompted the return to the classic anthropological issues of order and disorder. Examining order within the political and legal spheres and in contrasting local settings, the papers in this volume highlight its complex and contested nature. E…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
1. Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change 2. The pre-colonial nagari 3. Minangkabau under colonial government 4. Japanese occupation, independence and postcolonial transformation until 1983 5. Centralised government at its zenith 6. Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy 7. Creating new nagari structures 8. The return to the nagari: smooth transitions 9. Uneasy transformations 10. Governing the vil…
Multiple Embeddedness and Systemic Implications
Myths and stereotypes about adat law
Recent analyses of the 'revitalisation of tradition' have rekindled earlier discussions of the 'creation of customary law' in colonial states. For Indonesia, critics have deconstructed a 'myth of adat', arguing that adat law was an invention of the adat law scholar Van Vollenhoven and his followers. The assessment of that period also shapes interpretations of developments in Indonesia after 1998. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that i…
Islamic Law in a Plural Context
The paper deals with the historical dynamics of the struggle over inheritance law in West Sumatra under the colonial rule of the Dutch Indies. The Minangkabau in West Sumatra are an interesting example of legal pluralism in Muslim societies. Their adat (indigenous law and social organisation) of matrilineal heritage regulated kinship, group affiliation, inheritance of property, and succession to office. Since the sixteenth century they have been …
Identity in dispute
The article explores the comparatively peaceful reconstitution of the relationships between law, religion and identification processes among the Minangkabau in West Sumatra, Indonesia, since the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998. The local reorganization of village government and land claims included the revitalization of adat institutions which in turn provoked a reconsideration of the role of Islam, as indeed of the meaning of ‘being Minangkab…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity
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 I…
Religion in Disputes
Places That Come and Go
Stategraphy
In the introduction to this special issue, we discuss recent trends in anthropological research on and in theorizing the state. We show how these have given rise to an analytical gap between state images, on the one hand, and practices, on the other. Based on this analysis, we propose a relational approach that we call 'stategraphy' as a way to tie together state practices and representations. This ethnographically grounded approach focuses on re…
Temporalities in property relations under a plural legal order
A temporal perspective is critical for understanding how communities handle changes and continuities in property relations under conditions of legal pluralism. It provides crucial clues on property relations upon the death of property holders and on how concretized property relationships are maintained in social relationships between concrete property holders and objects. This paper inquires into entanglements of distinct property regimes valid a…
Trust and the temporalities of law
With a strong focus on social practices under plural legal conditions, the papers in this volume discuss how people operate within the various temporalities of law. The papers show that the competence to navigate the complex web of temporalities and legal orders is highly unequally distributed. Most papers in this volume testify to the stratifying implications of time when asymmetrically instrumentalised within the context of these social practic…
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