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
