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 to 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.
- ISBN10 1282627813
- ISBN13 9781282627819
- Publish Date 1 January 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 3 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berghahn Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 311
- Language English