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Author Drummond, Susan G. (Susan Gay), 1959-

Title Incorporating the familiar : an investigation into legal sensibilities in Nunavik / Susan G. Drummond.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-183) and index.
Contents Circuit court/circus court -- Toponymy and its objects -- The children under the bed -- Lovers and healing circles -- Circuit/circus/circle -- Agents of justice/agents of love.
Summary "Exploring the quandaries of intercultural communication and contemplating how diverse legal sensibilities might be mutually recognized, Incorporating the Familiar evokes the possibilities and limits of intercultural accommodation. Susan Drummond explores a series of philosophic, ethnographic and legal dilemmas produced by the interaction between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal legal cultures, setting up a dialogue between narrative and theory by interspersing accounts of her field experiences in Inuit communities with analytical chapters." "In the first section she addresses problems of delivery of justice among Inuit communities and explores the cultural determinacy of understanding. In the second section she focuses on the problem of family violence and the complexities to which it gives rise in rendering justice in Inuit communities. In the third section she provides an ethnographic account of Nunavik's first sentencing circle, underlining her contention that juridical rule emerge from the habits and forms of a society."--Jacket.
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Subject Inuit -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik.
Inuit -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Inuit.
Justice, Administration of -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik.
Justice, Administration of.
Ethnological jurisprudence.
Ethnological jurisprudence.
Culture conflict -- Québec (Province) -- Nunavik.
Culture conflict.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Drummond, Susan G. (Susan Gay), 1959- Incorporating the familiar. Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1997 (DLC) 98175068
ISBN 9780773566903 (electronic book)
0773566902 (electronic book)
0773516719
9780773516717