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Social Security Between Past and Future

Ambonese Networks of Care and Support

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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Social Security Between Past and Future

Ambonese Networks of Care and Support

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

Social security is a particularly precarious issue where states hardly provide any services in periods of need and distress. This book analyses the arrangements relationships through which food, shelter and care are provided on the island of Ambon, famous spice island in Eastern Indonesia. It also shows how relations of support tie Ambonese migrants in the Netherlands to their home villages, and how normative conceptions of need and care among kinsmen and villagers change over time. Though special in their own historical setting, Ambonese networks of care and support are illustrative of poor rural populations in the Third World. Focusing on the precursors of the violent conflict that erupted in 1998, the book shows that social security is like a magnifying glass linking past, present and future.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825807185

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9783825807184

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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 Indonesia's independence, in which the continuities are as notable as the changes. It also throws light on the transnational processes through which legal and political ideas spread and acquire new meanings. The multi-temporal historical approach adopted is also relevant to the more general discussions of the relationship between anthropology and history, the creation of customary law, identity construction, and the anthropology of colonialism.

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529

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Cambridge University Press

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110743484X

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9781107434844

Mobile People, Mobile Law

Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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Mobile People, Mobile Law

Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

Demonstrating how users of law, who often operate in multi-sited situations, are forced to deal with increasingly complex legal circumstances, this volume focuses on political and social processes through which people appropriate, use and create legal forms in multiple legal settings. It provides new insights into social and political processes through which transnational law is locally appropriated by different actors and presents empirical studies of confrontation, adaptation, vernacularization and hybridization of law due to its transplantation across the borders of national states. The contributors offer insights into modern dynamics of legal change, challenging assumptions about increasing homogeneity in law, with a keen eye for the historical situations in which current legal changes stand.

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348

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Routledge

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1351917145

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9781351917148

Property in Social Continuity

Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationships Through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann

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Property in Social Continuity

Continuity and Change in the Maintenance of Property Relationships Through Time in Minangkabau, West Sumatra

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann

Learn the laws of inheritance and teach them to the people; for they are one half of useful knowledge. t·1ohannned (Fyzee 1955: 329) When the prophet created this aphorism he had in mind the rules of in heritance law revealed to him by Allah. We could apply it to social an thropology as well sincethe inheritance of property and the succession to positions of socio-political authority are among the most important elements of social organization. They are the vehicles of continuity which maintain property and authority through time. In many societies, and particularly in those generally studied by anthropologists, inherit ance and succession are closely interconnected with kinship and descent and provide the economic and political substance for the existence and continuity of kinship- or descent-based social groups. They are, as it were, the flesh on the bare bones of kinship relations. The importance of inheritance has, of course, not escaped the notice of social and legal anthropologists, and in recent years several studies have ably demonstrated the point (Radcliffe-Brown 1952, Goodenough 1951, Leach 1961 b, Goody 1962, Lloyd 1962, Gray and Gulliver (eds. ) 1964, Derrett (ed. ) 1965, Gluckman 1972, Moore 1969, Burling 1974). Yet in general, property and inheritance have rather been treated as an appendix to economic and kinship studies.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9401728003

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9789401728003

Social Security Between Past and Future

Ambonese Networks of Care and Support

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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Ambonese Networks of Care and Support

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Mobile People, Mobile Law

Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

By: Franz von Benda-Beckmann,Keebet von Benda-Beckmann

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Expanding Legal Relations in a Contracting World

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Book's by Franz von Benda-Beckmann

Social Security Between Past and Future

Social Security Between Past and Future

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity

Mobile People, Mobile Law

Mobile People, Mobile Law

Property in Social Continuity

Property in Social Continuity

Social Security Between Past and Future

Social Security Between Past and Future

Mobile People, Mobile Law

Mobile People, Mobile Law

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