When Custom Is Law
This text chronicles some of the author’s intercultural involvement as an expert witness to help Inuit defend their rights in court. This involvement has resulted from his work with them (1956-2016) as an ethnographer, social anthropologist, and friend. Such experiences have made him understand that...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:50|dedup_wf_001::48d267b68d22ed81dd872ffd551722e7 2023-05-15T16:54:19+02:00 When Custom Is Law Bernard Saladin d’Anglure 2016-09-27 http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1037515ar https://doi.org/10.7202/1037515ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2569791044 fr fre Département d’anthropologie de l’Université Laval http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar.pdf https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar.pdf https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/1037515ar http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1037515ar https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/as/2016-v40-n2-as02669/1037515ar/ https://academic.microsoft.com/#/detail/2569791044 undefined oai:erudit.org:1037515ar 1037515ar 10.7202/1037515ar 2569791044 10|opendoar____::16e6a3326dd7d868cbc926602a61e4d0 10|openaire____::081b82f96300b6a6e3d282bad31cb6e2 10|issn___print::c7decda53910f8d59819874d5f970ad0 10|openaire____::8ac8380272269217cb09a928c8caa993 10|openaire____::5f532a3fc4f1ea403f37070f59a7a53a Sciences Humaines et Sociales Social Sciences and Humanities Saladin d’Anglure Inuit droit coutumier harmonie aveu tiers-inclus Customary Law Harmony Confession Included Middle derecho consuetudinario armonía confesión tercero incluido droit phil Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2016 fttriple https://doi.org/10.7202/1037515ar 2023-01-22T17:08:45Z This text chronicles some of the author’s intercultural involvement as an expert witness to help Inuit defend their rights in court. This involvement has resulted from his work with them (1956-2016) as an ethnographer, social anthropologist, and friend. Such experiences have made him understand that some traditional Inuit practices, like confession, testimony, arbitration, nature of punishment, making amends, or notions like those of person, family, adoption, and responsibility, did not have the same meaning in a society of hunter-gatherers with oral tradition as they do in a Western society with colonial heritage, like Canada, with its legislation and case law. At a time when communications and the economy are being globalized, Inuit cultures are going through profound changes. The logic of the included middle, which underlies ancient Inuit social cosmology, aimed for social harmony rather than punishment, and complementarity rather than antagonism. It is hardly compatible with Western law, which purports to be universal with its binary logic of the excluded middle (truth/falsehood, guiltiness/innocence, incarceration/community rehabilitation). Some enlightened jurists are trying to build bridges between Aboriginal cultures and our own to come to a « living together » that would be acceptable to everyone. Let us hope that they will soon be joined in this effort by many of the small numbers of Inuit jurists – judges, lawyers, or teachers trained in law school. Ce texte est une chronique anecdotique et interculturelle de l’implication de l’auteur comme témoin-expert auprès d’instances juridiques où les Inuit défendaient leurs droits. Elle résulte de sa collaboration avec eux (1956-2016), comme ethnographe, anthropologue social et comme ami. Cette expérience lui a fait comprendre que des pratiques inuit traditionnelles comme l’aveu, le témoignage, l’arbitrage, la nature des peines, la réparation, ou des notions comme celles de personne, de famille, d’adoption, de responsabilité, n’avaient pas le même sens dans ... Article in Journal/Newspaper inuit Unknown Canada Derecho ENVELOPE(-56.950,-56.950,-64.350,-64.350) Armonía ENVELOPE(-59.183,-59.183,-62.316,-62.316) Anthropologie et Sociétés 40 2 131 154 |
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This text chronicles some of the author’s intercultural involvement as an expert witness to help Inuit defend their rights in court. This involvement has resulted from his work with them (1956-2016) as an ethnographer, social anthropologist, and friend. Such experiences have made him understand that some traditional Inuit practices, like confession, testimony, arbitration, nature of punishment, making amends, or notions like those of person, family, adoption, and responsibility, did not have the same meaning in a society of hunter-gatherers with oral tradition as they do in a Western society with colonial heritage, like Canada, with its legislation and case law. At a time when communications and the economy are being globalized, Inuit cultures are going through profound changes. The logic of the included middle, which underlies ancient Inuit social cosmology, aimed for social harmony rather than punishment, and complementarity rather than antagonism. It is hardly compatible with Western law, which purports to be universal with its binary logic of the excluded middle (truth/falsehood, guiltiness/innocence, incarceration/community rehabilitation). Some enlightened jurists are trying to build bridges between Aboriginal cultures and our own to come to a « living together » that would be acceptable to everyone. Let us hope that they will soon be joined in this effort by many of the small numbers of Inuit jurists – judges, lawyers, or teachers trained in law school. Ce texte est une chronique anecdotique et interculturelle de l’implication de l’auteur comme témoin-expert auprès d’instances juridiques où les Inuit défendaient leurs droits. Elle résulte de sa collaboration avec eux (1956-2016), comme ethnographe, anthropologue social et comme ami. Cette expérience lui a fait comprendre que des pratiques inuit traditionnelles comme l’aveu, le témoignage, l’arbitrage, la nature des peines, la réparation, ou des notions comme celles de personne, de famille, d’adoption, de responsabilité, n’avaient pas le même sens dans ... |
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