Table of Contents
Frontmatter Contents Preface Introductory Essay: The State's Options PART I. GENERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIGENOUS LAW AND THE STATE: POLICY ARGUMENTS Aboriginal customary laws: proposals for recognition Aboriginal law and its importance for Aboriginal people: observations on the task of the Australian Law Reform Commission The indigenization of social control in Canada Indigenous law and state legal systems: conflict and compatibility Searching for Indian common law PART II. GENERAL RELATIONS BETWEEN INDIGENOUS LAW AND THE STATE: ANALYSES Persistence of folk law in India with particular reference to the tribal communities Comprehensive claims, culture and customary law: the case of the Labrador Inuit How state courts create customary law in Ghana and Nigeria PART III. CONSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS Entering Canadian confederation the Dene experiment The Inuit and customary law: constitutional perspectives Recognition of traditional laws in state courts and the formulation of state legislation Inside Brazilian Indian law: a comparative perspective PART IV. QUESTIONS OF STATUS: WOMEN; CHILD PLACEMENT Aboriginal women and the recognition of customary law in Australia Towards an aboriginal child placement principle: a view from New South Wales Aboriginal child placement in the urban context PART V. ISSUES IN STATE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS Exercising discretion: sentencing and customary law in the Northern Territory One community, two laws: aspects of conflict and convergence in a Western Australian Aboriginal settlement Legal anthropology in the formulation of correctional policy in the Northwest Territories, Canada Institutionalizing criminality in Greenland Alcohol control in Alaska Eskimo communities: communal vs. 'official' law The Contributors