Traditional Aboriginal and Inuit Judicial Proceedings
International audience This article draws on a review of the literature to provide an inventory of procedures and sanctions relating to the exercise of justice and law in traditional Australian and Inuit societies—in the broad sense, the social management of conflicts. The Inuit conception of judici...
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ftunivparis8:oai:HAL:hal-04205620v1 2024-06-23T07:48:18+00:00 Traditional Aboriginal and Inuit Judicial Proceedings Procédures judicaires traditionnelles inuites et aborigènes Traditional Aboriginal and Inuit Judicial Proceedings: A comparative study Procédures judicaires traditionnelles inuites et aborigènes: Une étude comparative Darmangeat, Christophe Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) 2023-09-12 https://hal.science/hal-04205620 https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.59.1.71 en eng HAL CCSD University of Wisconsin Press info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.3368/aa.59.1.71 hal-04205620 https://hal.science/hal-04205620 doi:10.3368/aa.59.1.71 ISSN: 0066-6939 Arctic Anthropology https://hal.science/hal-04205620 Arctic Anthropology, 2023, 59 (1), pp.71-86. ⟨10.3368/aa.59.1.71⟩ Justice Law Warfare Feud Hunter-Gatherers [SHS.ANTHRO-SE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2023 ftunivparis8 https://doi.org/10.3368/aa.59.1.71 2024-06-10T23:54:11Z International audience This article draws on a review of the literature to provide an inventory of procedures and sanctions relating to the exercise of justice and law in traditional Australian and Inuit societies—in the broad sense, the social management of conflicts. The Inuit conception of judicial action is highlighted, which, unlike Australian practices, emphasizes psychological and social dimensions rather than physical sanctions. Here, I use an analytical grid previously developed for Australia to classify the procedures observed among the Inuit. This approach is articulated around three formal criteria (symmetry, moderation, and designation) and reveals a sharp dichotomy in Inuit peoples between Alaska and the eastern Canadian and Greenlandic regions. The east is marked by the almost total absence of collective designation procedures, in any form whatsoever, with the possible and rare exception of the regulated battle. This absence explains the limited extent of warfare—at least, internal to the Inuit groups—and low-intensity feuding in this region. Alaska, contrarily, experienced several variants of collective actions, including feuds and judicial warfare. Cet article dresse, à partir d'une revue de la littérature, un inventaire des procédures et des sanctions relatives à l'exercice de la justice et du droit – - au sens large de la gestion sociale des conflits – dans les sociétés traditionnelles australiennes et inuit. On détaille la conception inuit de l'action judiciaire qui, à la différence des pratiques australiennes, met l'accent sur les dimensions psychologiques et sociales plutôt que sur les sanctions physiques. Pour classer les procédures observées chez les Inuits, on utilise une grille d'analyse préalablement élaborée pour l'Australie. Cette approche s'articule autour de trois critères formels (symétrie, modération et désignation) et révèle une forte dichotomie des peuples inuits entre l'Alaska et les régions de l'est du Canada et du Groenland. L'est est marqué par l'absence quasi-totale de ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Anthropology greenlandic Groenland inuit inuites inuits Alaska Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis: HAL Canada Arctic Anthropology 59 1 71 86 |
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International audience This article draws on a review of the literature to provide an inventory of procedures and sanctions relating to the exercise of justice and law in traditional Australian and Inuit societies—in the broad sense, the social management of conflicts. The Inuit conception of judicial action is highlighted, which, unlike Australian practices, emphasizes psychological and social dimensions rather than physical sanctions. Here, I use an analytical grid previously developed for Australia to classify the procedures observed among the Inuit. This approach is articulated around three formal criteria (symmetry, moderation, and designation) and reveals a sharp dichotomy in Inuit peoples between Alaska and the eastern Canadian and Greenlandic regions. The east is marked by the almost total absence of collective designation procedures, in any form whatsoever, with the possible and rare exception of the regulated battle. This absence explains the limited extent of warfare—at least, internal to the Inuit groups—and low-intensity feuding in this region. Alaska, contrarily, experienced several variants of collective actions, including feuds and judicial warfare. Cet article dresse, à partir d'une revue de la littérature, un inventaire des procédures et des sanctions relatives à l'exercice de la justice et du droit – - au sens large de la gestion sociale des conflits – dans les sociétés traditionnelles australiennes et inuit. On détaille la conception inuit de l'action judiciaire qui, à la différence des pratiques australiennes, met l'accent sur les dimensions psychologiques et sociales plutôt que sur les sanctions physiques. Pour classer les procédures observées chez les Inuits, on utilise une grille d'analyse préalablement élaborée pour l'Australie. Cette approche s'articule autour de trois critères formels (symétrie, modération et désignation) et révèle une forte dichotomie des peuples inuits entre l'Alaska et les régions de l'est du Canada et du Groenland. L'est est marqué par l'absence quasi-totale de ... |
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Laboratoire Dynamiques Sociales et Recomposition des Espaces (LADYSS) Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (UP1)-Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (UP8)-Université Paris Nanterre (UPN)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES) École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès (UT2J) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
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