Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xii, 187 p)
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ill
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24 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780226712956
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0226712931
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0226712958
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9780226712932
Serie:
The Chicago series in law and society
Inhalt:
Arguing with Tradition is the first book to explore language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. Grounded in Justin Richland's extensive field research on the Hopi Indian Nation of northeastern Arizona-on whose appellate court he now serves as Justice Pro Tempore-this innovative work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by the processes of Hopi jurisprudence. Like many indigenous legal institutions across North America, the Hopi Tribal Court was created in the image of Anglo-American-style law. But Richland shows th
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-178) and index
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: Arguing with Tradition in Native America; The Ironies of Indigeneity; Native American Tribal Law and Tradition; "Anglo" Law in Indian Country: Courts of Indian Offenses; Tribal Courts Today: At the Edge of Tribal Sovereignty; The Dearth of Ethnographies of Tribal Courts; The Approach and Aims of This Study; An Outline of This Study; 2. Making a Hopi Nation: "Anglo" Law Comes to Hopi Country; Hopi Tribal Governance; Hopi Village Organization and Governance; Court Comes to Hopi Country; The Hopi Tribal Court Today
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Data and Methodologies: Talking Tradition in Hopi Property Disputes3. "What are you going to do with the village's knowledge?" Language Ideologies and Legal Power in Hopi Tribal Court; Legal Discourse Analysis and Legal Power; Language Ideologies, Metadiscourse, and Metapragmatics; Talking Tradition, Talking Law in Hopi Courtroom Interactions; The Language Ideologies of Anglo-American Law versus Hopi Traditional Authority; Conclusion; 4. "He could not speak Hopi . . . . That puzzle- puzzled me": The Pragmatic Paradoxes of Hopi Tradition in Court; Paradox in the Pragmatics of Language and Law
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Discourses of Cultural Difference in Hopi CourtIterations of Indigeneity in a Hopi Court Hearing; Conclusion; 5. Suffering into Truth: Hopi Law as Narrative Interaction; Legal Narrativity in and out of Court; A Model of Hopi Law as Narrative Interaction; The Significance of Settings: Judicial Openings of Hopi Courtroom Narrative; The Contested Narrativity of a Hopi Property Proceeding; Conclusion; 6. Conclusion: Arguments with Tradition; Tradition, Culture, and the Politics of Authenticity; The "Politics" of Multiculturalism and Native Culture; Arguing with Tradition; Notes; References; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780226712932
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Arguing with Tradition : The Language of Law in Hopi Tribal Court
Sprache:
Englisch
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