Substantial Justice: An Anthropology of Village Courts in Papua New Guinea

by Michael Goddard

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845455614
• ISBN13: 9781845455613
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"