1st Edition

Legal Pluralism in Central Asia Local Jurisdiction and Customary Practices

By Mahabat Sadyrbek Copyright 2018
250 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

250 Pages 23 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Mahabat Sadyrbek is a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany.