Title Substantial justice : an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard.

Publication Info.	New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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Description	1 online resource (xvii, 311 pages) : illustrations, maps
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-302) and index.
Contents	Colonial law : an extended prelude to the village courts -- The administration of village courts -- Village courts on trial -- Three village courts and their social environments -- Village court politics -- Pari village court in action -- Konedobu village court in action -- Erima village court in action -- Between groups and individuals.
Summary	"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 of 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."
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Subject	District courts -- Papua New Guinea.
	Customary law courts -- Papua New Guinea -- National Capital District.
	Customary law -- Papua New Guinea -- National Capital District.
	Dispute resolution (Law) -- Papua New Guinea -- National Capital District.
	National Capital District (Papua New Guinea) -- Social conditions.
	Law and anthropology.
	LAW -- Civil Procedure.
	LAW -- Legal Services.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Judicial Branch.
	LAW -- General.
	Customary law.
	Customary law courts.
	Dispute resolution (Law)
	District courts.
	Law and anthropology.
	Social conditions.
	Papua New Guinea.
	Papua New Guinea -- National Capital District.
Other Form:	Print version: Goddard, Michael (Michael Bruce). Substantial justice. New York : Berghahn Books, 2009 9781845455613 (DLC) 2008053752 (OCoLC)255894599
ISBN	9781845459222 (electronic book)
	1845459229 (electronic book)
	9781845455613 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	1845455614 (hardback ; alkaline paper)

Title Substantial justice : an anthropology of village courts in Papua New Guinea / Michael Goddard.

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