Law and the moral system
If a principle emerges from the Baraṭ documents it is that of personal protection. This is not a form of individualism, however, nor even of the endlessly disputed household-power apparent in for instance early Iceland. The condition of a tribesmanʼs ability to protect is its recognition by fellow t...
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Centre français d’archéologie et de sciences sociales
2016
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| Online Access: | http://books.openedition.org/cefas/853 |
| Summary: | If a principle emerges from the Baraṭ documents it is that of personal protection. This is not a form of individualism, however, nor even of the endlessly disputed household-power apparent in for instance early Iceland. The condition of a tribesmanʼs ability to protect is its recognition by fellow tribesmen, and people are conceived of as implicated by nature in their fellowsʼ actions: families thus fall within sections, and sections within tribes, which is loosely expressed in a language of . |
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