This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Lauderdale, P. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                   What's this?

Indigenous North American Jurisprudence1

This article explores differences between indigenous North American and contemporary Western perspectives on jurisprudence. It examines the impact of state law arising from a paradigm of control and standardization of behavior and contrasts it with indigenous "law" which reflected an emphasis on nature, diversity, and freedom. The research here suggests that political organization is a central variable affecting particular types of punishment and forms of law. The study raises central issues regarding the roles of criminal and civil law as well as different forms of sanctioning. The article proposes an agenda for future research explicating indigenous civil law which can be examined in a variety of specific social contexts varying in scale, complexity, degree of formalization, and historical and comparative setting.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				P. Lauderdale and P. Toggia An Indigenous View of the New World Order: Somalia and the Ostensible Rule of Law Journal of Asian and African Studies, January 1, 1999; 34(2): 157 - 177. [Abstract] [PDF]