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Authority and conflict in Slavonian householdsessay 1989 • Gilliland, Mary Katherine
Croats • Europe > Southeastern Europe
This essay discusses the effects of environmental conditions on household boundaries and activities. It describes the various ways in which social and economic conditions have produced selective changes in households, particularly in relations of aut...Law and authority in a Nigerian tribeBook 1970 • Meek, C. K. (Charles Kingsley) & Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry, Baron
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
As the result of the violent and widespread women's riot in 1929, which caught the British Colonial Administration in Nigeria by surprise, a commission of inquiry was established to look into the causes of the disturbances. After interviewing hundred...Leadership and authority in an African societyBook 1971 • Ottenberg, Simon
Igbo • Africa > Western Africa
This source contains a lucid and lengthy description and analysis of the social structure of the Afikpo village-group. The author builds his discussion from the smallest units (lineages, age sets, and secret societies) on out to larger units includin...Leadership, authority and the village communityessay 1964 • Southwold, Martin
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this paper, Southwold looks at authority and status patterns in village Buganda. Traditional chiefs had the power to grant and revoke land rights and also the power of life and death over their subjects. However, most chiefs avoided such despotic ...Authority patterns in traditional Bugandaessay 1964 • Richards, Audrey I. (Audrey Isabel)
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
This paper examines the similar patterns of authority found in the Baganda home, village and royal court. The father, chief, and king were all harsh authoritarians who demanded complete deference, obedience, and loyalty from their inferiors in exchan...The revenues of local authoritiesessay 1955 • Özyürük, Mukbil
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
This article is a chapter from the book, "Studies in Turkish Local Government," which discusses local finances, including banking, taxes, and other revenue sources....Structure and authority in a Bedouin tribeBook 1973 • Obermeyer, Gerald Joseph
Libyan Bedouin • Africa > Northern Africa
This study, based on the data collected by the author during the period of his fieldwork from June 1964 to May 1965, is an analysis of the political structure, authority, and leadership roles in the relatively permanent 'Aishaibat Bedouin coastal com...Authority and social structureBook 1982 • Fagg, Donald R.
Javanese • Asia > Southeast Asia
This source “proposes to account for the character of authority exercized in” the sub-district office “by considering its relations to the social structure, and in particular the system of social stratification of the middle-sized community in Java i...Authority and public opinion in Tikopiaessay 1949 • Firth, Raymond
Tikopia • Oceania > Polynesia
This article is concerned with the expression of public opinion and the action taken in regard to it, and is discussed particularly in terms of decision, leadership, and organization....Soviet attitudes toward authorityBook 1951 • Mead, Margaret
Russians • Europe > Eastern Europe
This study brings together a set of hypotheses on aspects of the social psychology of leadership in the Soviet Union, with particular attention to conceptions of the self. The analysis proceeds from constructs of character structure, and Soviet premi...Leaders, followers and attitudes toward authorityessay 1964 • Doob, Leonard W.
Ganda • Africa > Eastern Africa
This study examines the extent to which political attitudes and structure are congruent in Baganda society. It is based on two questionnaires administered to 139 and 124 informants living in Kampala and surrounding suburbs (the furthest village being...The quest for religious authority and the rise of Mormonismessay 1972 • De Pillis, Mario S.
Mormons • North America > Southwest and Basin
This source chronicles the quest for, and development of, authority in early Mormon doctrine and in the Church, set in the broader context of the religious sectarianism of the times. For references cited see Hill and Allen (1972 “Selected bibliograph...Chiefly authority, leapfrogging headmen and the political economy of Zululand, South Africa, ca. 1930-1950article 2001 • Mackinnon, Aran S.
Zulu • Africa > Southern Africa
In early twentieth century South Africa, where white and capitalist domination of Africans was the central feature of the country's political economy, various elements of African society tried to use 'tradition' in a defensive manner to resist the pe...The juridicial customs of the Yakutarticle 1898 • Kharuzin, Aleksai Nikolaevich & Keen, B.
Yakut • Asia > North Asia
The actual field work, for which no date has been given was done by H. P. Pripuzov for the Ethnographic Division of the Imperial Society of Students of Natural Science, but his material, according to the author, was fragmentary and lacking organizati...The Garo customary laws and the application of general laws in Garo Hillsessay 1995 • Marak, Julius
Garo • Asia > South Asia
In this paper, Marak discusses the administration of justice among the Garo. In the pre-British period, all cases were tried and settled by the village headmen (NOKMA) and their council. Wrongful acts consisted of any act which hurt or damaged a pers...Foundations of Turkish local governmentessay 1955 • Mansur, Fatma
Turks • Middle East > Middle East
This article is a chapter from the book, "Studies in Turkish Local Government" on the constitutional framework and powers of local government....Who is a wife?essay 1983 • Vellenga, Dorothy Dee
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
The Akan have as many words for marriage as the Eskimo do for snow. Marriages varied according to the differences in lineage involvement, gift exchanges, rituals, and statuses. The passing of the 1884 Marriage Ordinance Act attempted to set a standar...Concept of maintenace in Garo customary lawessay 1995 • Pathak, Manjushree
Garo • Asia > South Asia
In this brief article a lawyer examines maintenance law among the Garo. The 'personal obligation to maintain certain near relations as dependents' is Hindu custom and has been written into Hindu criminal law, with respect to the maintenance of wives,...Keresan Pueblo lawessay 1969 • Hoebel, E. Adamson (Edward Adamson)
Zia Pueblo • North America > Southwest and Basin
Hoebel writes about Keresan law. Zia are one of several Keresan pueblos in western New Mexico, including Cochiti, Santo Domingo, and San Felipe on the Rio Grande; Acoma and Laghuna, west of Albuquerque; and Santa Ana and Sia (Zia) on the Jemez River ...Marriage and law among the Bhils of Rajasthanarticle 1987 • Rūpa Singha
Bhil • Asia > South Asia
This article is a survey of the customary law, conventions, and practices regulating Bhil marriage in Rajasthan, northwest India. The author describes the various modes of marriage in Bhil society many of which are in conflict with the Indian Penal c...Custom, courts, and class formationarticle 2000 • Silverman, Marilyn
Rural Irish • Europe > British Isles
This article examines the courtroom as a site where class hegemony and domination is reproduced. Courtrooms brought together people from different backgrounds, such as large and small landowners, and farmers and landless laborers. Relying largely on ...Judicial regulation and administrative controlarticle 1986 • Johnson, Douglas H. (Douglas Hamilton)
Nuer • Africa > Eastern Africa
In this paper Johnson shows how the British attempted to administer and control Nuer and Dinka through a judicial system of secular leaders. The system failed because the leaders did not have the spiritual and moral authority beyond their immdediate ...Traditions and modernity in matrilineal tribal societyBook 1997 • Marak, Kumie R.
Garo • Asia > South Asia
This book is a study of Garo law based on participant observation, interviews, and case records. The legal system recognizes to some extent Garo customary law practiced within the homes, clans, and villages and presided over by clan and village elder...A Study of traditional adjudication in rural Bangladesharticle 1995 • Mashreque, Md. Shairul & Amin, M. Ruhul
Bengali • Asia > South Asia
In Bangladesh the rural court system is considered to be a 'functional entity' and a custodian of rural political culture. It functions to resolve any conflict that may appear as a challenge to the authority or as a confrontation or interpersonal hos...Fanti national constitutionBook 1968 • Sarbah, John Mensah
Akan • Africa > Western Africa
Sarbah (b. 1864) was a Fante nationalist, lawyer, and scholar who wrote this major work on Fante history as a critique of British misrule in the Gold Coast. The local British administration was influenced by mercantile interests and acted in ignoranc...