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- First Page
- Preliminary pages
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The magic of the court
- Part I: Village courts and non-courts in action
- 1. Legal consciousness and the predicament of village courts in a ‘weak state’: Internalisation of external authority in the New Guinea Highlands
- 2. Following an adultery case beyond the court: The making of legal consciousness in and around Nadzab Village Court, Markham River Valley
- 3. ‘Making kastam full’ in the Sepik: The Awim Village Court as a spectral gift of shells
- 4. Unmaking a village court: The invisible workings of an alternative dispute forum
- Part II: The courts, the law and the Papua New Guinean state
- 5. Keeping the sky up: Papua New Guinea’s village courts in the age of capacity building
- 6. Collapsing the scales of law
- 7. A system that allows people to say sorry: An interview with Fiona Hukula
- Contributors
