TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tamanaha,Brian Z.
TI  - Understanding Law in Micronesia: An Interpretive Approach to Transplanted Law 
T2  - Social Sciences - Book Archive pre-2000
SN  - 9789004618046
AV  - KVS546.7 
U1  - 349.965 23
PY  - 1993///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Culture and law
KW  - Customary law
KW  - Micronesia
KW  - Law
KW  - Foreign influences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Preface; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter One Introduction; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Two The Setting; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Three Theory Talk; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Four Law in Interpretive Terms; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Five Back to Micronesia; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Six An Autonomous Law; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Chapter Seven Conclusion; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Bibliography; Brian Z. Tamanaha -- Index; Brian Z. Tamanaha
N2  - This book examines law in Micronesia from a novel perspective. It draws upon several branches of interpretive analysis, including mundane phenomenology, symbolic interaction, and cultural hermeneutics, to construct a comprehensive approach to transplanted systems of state law. Rather than the usual focus on legal norms and institutions, this approach directs attention to the law-related meaningful actions and understandings of legal actors and of non-legal actors. Application of this approach results in insights about law in Micronesia, as well as about law itself, and about the ideology of law. A wide range of subjects are addressed, from the nature of legal thinking to the autonomy of law. It is a work in legal theory grounded in psychological, sociological and anthropological observations and analysis
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004618046
ER  -