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Contention and dispute : aspects of law and social control in Melanesia /

Contention and dispute : aspects of law and social control in Melanesia / A.L. Epstein, editor. - Canberra : Portland, Or. : Australian National University Press ; International Scholarly Book Services, 1974. - 354 pages ; 23 cm

Papers presented to a seminar at the Australian National University in Sept., 1968.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-351) and index.

Private sanctions and public ideology: some aspects of self-help in Kalauna, Goodenough Island / M.W. Young -- The range of traditional Tolai remedies / P.G. Sack -- Moots on Matupit / A.L. Epstein -- The Kaliai Lupunga: disputing in the public forum / D. and D. Counts -- Disputing in two West New Britain societies: similarities and differences / A. Chowning -- Changing conventions of dispute settlement in the Minj area / M. Reay -- When dispute procedures fail / A. Strathern -- Managing information: the problems of a dispute-settler (Mount Hagen) / M. Strathern -- Social control and the tambaran in the Sepik / D. Tuzin.

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Dispute resolution (Law)--Melanesia.
Customary law--Melanesia.

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