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Political and legal transformations of an Indonesian polity : The Nagari from colonisation to decentralisation
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2013
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| Edition: | 1st Ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Towards an anthropological understanding of political and legal change
- The pre-colonial nagari
- Minangkabau under colonial government
- Japanese occupation, independence and post-colonial transformation until 1983
- Centralised government at its zenith
- Reformasi: constitutional reforms and regional autonomy
- Creating new nagari structures
- The return to the nagari: smooth transitions
- Uneasy transformations
- Governing the village
- New dynamics in property rights
- Never ending disputes
- Property law reconstituted, uncertainty perpetuated
- Old issues revisited: Adat, Islam and Minangkabau identity politics
- Decentralisation, the transformation of the nagari and the dynamics of legal pluralism: some conclusions.