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Subject(s)

• Legal polycentricity—Asia, Central [Browse]
• Customary law—Asia, Central [Browse]
• Legal polycentricity—Kyrgyzstan [Browse]
• Customary law—Kyrgyzstan [Browse]

Series

• Central Asian studies series ; 32. [More in this series]
• Central Asian studies series ; 32 [More in this series]

Summary note

"[This book] reports on historical, anthropological and legal research which examines customary legal practices in Kyrgyzstan and relates them to wider societal developments in Central Asia and further afield. Using the term legal pluralism, the book demonstrates that there is a spectrum of approaches, available avenues, forms of local law and indigenous popular justice in Kyrgyzstan's predominantly rural communities, which can be labelled living law. [The author] shows how contemporary peoples systematically address challenging problems, such as disputes, violence, accidents, crime and other difficulties, and thereby seek justice, redress, punishment, compensation, readjustment of relations or closure. [The author] demonstrates that local law, expressed through ritually structured communicative exchange, through dictums and proverbs with binding characters and different legal practices or processes undertaken in specific ways, deem the solutions appropriate and acceptable. The reader is thereby enabled to see the law in people's deepest assumptions and beliefs, in codes of shame and honour, in local mores and ethics as well as in religious terms. In this way, the book reveals the dynamic, changing and living character of law in a specific context and in a region hitherto insufficiently researched within legal anthropology."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Legal pluralism in Kyrgyzstan
• Social structure and agency
• Concept of apoogy and forgiveness
• Mediation and negotiation
• Making amends and kun-giving
• The state as the main form of ordering
• Eldik sot : people's law
• Islam as a reference
• Conclusion.

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ISBN

• 9781138551763 ((hardcover))
• 1138551767 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2017042240

OCLC

1002722592

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