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How does law operate beyond the major cities of Papua New Guinea? This collection examines village courts and other local forums through detailed anthropological case studies, following the people, relationships and disputes that give these institutions their everyday significance.
Contributors discuss legal consciousness in the Highlands, an adultery dispute in the Markham River Valley, shell exchanges in the Sepik, and alternative dispute forums. Later chapters consider capacity building, the relationship between local and state authority, and reconciliation. An interview with Fiona Hukula adds a practitioner’s perspective on a system in which saying sorry and repairing relationships can be central outcomes.