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Introduction Introduction
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Precursors Precursors
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Van Vollenhoven and the Leiden Adat Law School Van Vollenhoven and the Leiden Adat Law School
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Repositioning the study of folk law after Indonesia’s independence Repositioning the study of folk law after Indonesia’s independence
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From the study of folk law to legal anthropology From the study of folk law to legal anthropology
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Themes of research Themes of research
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Dispute Management and Justice Dispute Management and Justice
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Governance—Authority—Access to Justice—Rule of Law Governance—Authority—Access to Justice—Rule of Law
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Property Relations, Indigenous Rights, and Environmental Justice Property Relations, Indigenous Rights, and Environmental Justice
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Social Security, Food Security, and Migration Social Security, Food Security, and Migration
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Religion and Family Law Religion and Family Law
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Conclusions Conclusions
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Notes Notes
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References References
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11 Law and Anthropology in the NetherlandsFrom Adat Law School to Anthropology of Law
Get accessKeebet von Benda-Beckmann is the former Co-Head of the Project Group ‘Legal Pluralism’ at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. With her late husband Franz von Benda-Beckmann, she conducted decades of anthropological research in the social working of law under conditions of legal pluralism in Indonesia. Among her many books is Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
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Published:10 November 2020
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Abstract
This chapter offers an overview of the Dutch tradition of legal anthropology as it developed from the Adat Law School of the early twentieth century, especially from the contributions of its leading member, Cornelis van Vollenhoven. It begins with a brief sketch of the precursors of the Adat Law School, then traces the development of the Dutch tradition from the work of Van Vollenhoven and his colleagues to that of later scholars, showing how, in the last two decades of the colonial era, research on adat law became an ever more conservative and shallow legal science. The second part of the chapter focuses on the emerging Dutch anthropology of law after 1950, describing its institutional bases and emphasizing its increasing embeddedness in international debates. It also discusses some of the conceptual problems posed by the Indonesian indigenous rights movement, which draws both on international legal concepts and on concepts developed by the Adat Law School.
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