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Legal Pluralism in Central Asia: Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices

Legal Pluralism in Central Asia: Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices

Author: Mahabat Sadyrbek
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138551763
Published In: January 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Legal Pluralism in Central Asia 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.

Based on her extensive original research, Mahabat Sadyrbek 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. She 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.

PART ONE

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Legal Pluralism in Kyrgyzstan

Chapter 3: Social Structure and Agency

PART TWO Chapter 4: Concept of Apology and Forgiveness

Chapter 5: Mediation and Negotiation

Chapter 6: Making Amends and Kun-Giving

PART THREE Chapter 7: The State as the Main Form of Ordering

Chapter 8: Eldik sot – People’s Law

Chapter 9: Islam as a Reference

CONCLUSION