Book
Dispute and settlement in rural Turkey: an ethnography of law
E.J. Brill • 23 • Published In 1978 • Pages: vii, 304
By: Starr, June.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnography of dispute management at the village level. In 1920s, under the new Republic, Ataturk abolished the Islamic Shari'a courts and adopted the Swiss Civil Code. The Republic also instituted the Village Law of 1926, which incorporated villages into the state administrative and legal systems. The author examines disputes in a village in western Turkey. Disputes are handled in one of three ways: i) locally within the village on an informal basis, ii) formally through state legal agencies, and iii) both avenues are used. The author finds that the local village head and council are not used at all by villagers. Instead one of the two richest villagers are sought out to help adjudicate disputes. The author also found that a quick resolution is achieved in cases where the status difference between disputants is great. She also discovered that judges in the higher courts are sensitive to local customs and try to achieve resolution satisfying to both parties even if such resolution takes years of suits and countersuits.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Informal in-group justice
- Offenses and sanctions
- Justice
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Turks
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Middle East
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Middle East
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966-1968
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1966-1968
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Bodrum District, Muğla Province, western Turkey
- NotesAdditional notes
- by June Starr
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 82461751
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Dispute resolution (Law)--Turkey